BIB_ID
430523
Accession number
MA 14300.4
Creator
Abdy, Hariot, 1819-1877, sender.
Display Date
Meiningen, Germany, 1859? December 24
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 21.8 x 13.7 cm
Notes
Year of writing suggested by the writer's reference to England's failure to support Portugal during the recent "Portuguese difficulty", a probable allusion to the seizure of a French vessel engaged in the slave trade off the coast of Africa in 1858.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Asking if she has gone to Florence for the winter and referring to her recent stay in Tours, where she would have enjoyed the presence of the 3e Regiment Hussards; mentioning that she has heard that a great ball that Madame Blaze de Bury was to attend was cancelled; asking her opinion of political events in England and commenting on (John) Bright and his Reform Bill and Britain's failure to support Portugal against France during the recent "Portuguese difficulty"; lamenting her isolation in Meiningen and the dullness of local society, and commenting on the princess (of Saxe-Meiningen), who is "the only nice thing I have seen here".
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