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Letter from Charlotte Louisa Caldwell, London, to Baroness Marie Blaze de Bury, 1859 April 28 : autograph manuscript signed with initials.

BIB_ID
431530
Accession number
MA 14300.79
Creator
Caldwell, Charlotte Louisa, 1816-1878, sender.
Display Date
London, England, 1859 April 28.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 20.9 x 13.3 cm
Notes
Written from "Audley Square".
Written on black-edged mourning stationery.
Signed "C Louisa Caldwell".
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Concerning the death of her father, Charles Andrew Caldwell (1785-1859), who died on February 11, 1859; reminiscing on the time she has spent with Madame de Bury and describing her current sense of bereavement as well as a new sense of responsibility occasioned by at the loss of her father; mentioning the family's struggle to devise a way to keep the house (at Audley Square) and relating how they have placed two of their horses with family in Ireland.