Letter from Harriot Abdy, Meiningen, to Baroness Marie Blaze de Bury, circa 1858 : autograph manuscript signed.

Writing that she has been to unhappy and out of temper to write sooner, remarking on Rose de Bury's recent visit to London, reminiscing on the time they spent together in Paris, and wishing she were at Tours to once again host the Blaze de Burys there; commenting that, unlike Rose Blaze de Bury, she is "always grumbling", adding "but then you always do have your own way, & I seldom have mine ... I think I have twenty times more reason to wish to be a man"; remarking on the backwardness of Meiningen, complaining that she has not yet made a single acquaintance there and describing the discomforts of her current residence, "A house half finished, not furnish, with strange servants & half a dozen children running over one's feet."; noting that, fortunately, the local railway to Frankfurt is to be finished in October and that even her husband Neville seems a little bored, although he states that education is "better attended to" there than in France; stating that the town "swarms with Jews", that they are having the "most magnificent weather, but no fruit no flowers", and asking Madame Blaze de Bury to give her regards to the officers at Tours.