BIB_ID
301841
Accession number
MA 656.106
Creator
Marie-Amélie, Queen, consort of Louis-Philippe, King of the French, 1782-1866.
Display Date
1813 Oct. 11.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 19.4 cm
Notes
Dated "11 8bre 1813."
Labeled "No. 29" by Marie-Amélie.
Part of a large collection of letters from Queen Marie-Amélie to her former governess la baronne de Mandell. Letters have been cataloged individually; see collection-level record for more information.
Labeled "No. 29" by Marie-Amélie.
Part of a large collection of letters from Queen Marie-Amélie to her former governess la baronne de Mandell. Letters have been cataloged individually; see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. before 1913.
Summary
Saying that she is delighted to read that she is doing well; discussing her mother's visit to Austria; thanking her for the embroidery samples she sent; discussing her blissful family life; saying that the plague in Malta and the yellow fever in Gibraltar have not reached Palermo.
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