BIB_ID
407097
Accession number
MA 9129.5
Creator
Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868.
Display Date
1852 August 3.
Description
1 item (5 pages) ; 18.2 x 11.3 cm + envelope
Notes
Removed from Brialmont. Life of Wellington (PML 7901-7916), vol. VIII, p. 252.
Marked 'Private."
The envelope is dated three years after this letter. It is unclear why it is mounted on the same page with this letter.
There are pencil transcriptions, written above each line, on the last 2 pages of the letter.
Envelope marked "Private" with stamp and postmarked "Cannes, 26 December 1855" to "A. Hayward, Esq K.C. 11 King's Bench Walk / Temple / London" and with text on the inside of the envelope flap saying "I fear your news of the dear Castlereagh coming this way is too good to be true - Your erratum of Ld S. de [illegible] for S(?). de Redcliffe gave me a pang - alas he has long been dead."
Marked 'Private."
The envelope is dated three years after this letter. It is unclear why it is mounted on the same page with this letter.
There are pencil transcriptions, written above each line, on the last 2 pages of the letter.
Envelope marked "Private" with stamp and postmarked "Cannes, 26 December 1855" to "A. Hayward, Esq K.C. 11 King's Bench Walk / Temple / London" and with text on the inside of the envelope flap saying "I fear your news of the dear Castlereagh coming this way is too good to be true - Your erratum of Ld S. de [illegible] for S(?). de Redcliffe gave me a pang - alas he has long been dead."
Summary
Expressing concern Count D'Orsay who is in Paris saying "It is said there is a message every day from the Elysee;" discussing the current state of affairs saying "The state of things in this country as well as in France is very fortunately that of perfect quiet & great prosperity - If it were otherwise in either country the consequences would be very alarming - for here we have & are likely for some time to have nothing that can be called a government and there with all the excessive folly of the fete-loving people, any distress would soon put an end to the submission which the alarm not yet forgotten, has produced - It is understood, I may say, I am quite certain, that our gov't or rather our Ministers calling themselves a gov't, are anything rather than satisfied with the Elections - indeed that they are greatly disappointed. Oh, what did they, what could they xpect?" adding, in a postscript, "I don't believe in an October Session - I know some of the Ministers say November."
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