Letter from John George Cooke, London, to Baroness Marie Blaze de Bury, 1859 June 23 : autograph manuscript signed.

Mentioning that he heard from his sister that "Lady Smyth cannot come over this summer", wondering that will change Madame de Bury's own plans, and asking if she received an I.O.U. he returned to her; asking her opinion of European politics: "will Prussia fight or try to negotiate - after all L.N. [Louis Napoleon] has outmanuevered the Austrians up to this point ... I cannot imagine Russia really helping a revolutionary movement - and yet that is the form that the war is taking"; stating that "we shall not move until attacked", and observing that the "unwieldy masses of troops in Germany without generals I fear will not frighten France much"; writing that France and Austria are becoming less formidable "by process of exhaustion", but that the "state of feeling [in England] is most troubled and uneasy" and "I cannot see how this ministry will stand - The ultras say they have been deceived and outwitted - and are quite ready to vote Lord Derby back again ... They do not think that Cobden will take office - and Gibson will find himself very awkwardly situated"; adding that "business is at a stand still", and that his sister [Elizabeth]'s family, the Easthope's, will be going to Vichy.