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Letter from Henrietta Caldwell, England?, to Baroness Marie Blaze de Bury, circa 1854 January 28 : autograph manuscript signed with initials.

BIB_ID
432206
Accession number
MA 14300.89
Creator
Caldwell, Henrietta, 1784-1869, sender.
Display Date
England, approximately 1854 January 28.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18.1 x 11.4 cm
Notes
Written on black-edged mourning stationery.
Signed "H. C.".
Year of writing suggested by internal evidence: references to Madame de Bury's financial arrangements imply that Henrietta Caldwell's sister, Anne Dunbar (1779-1853), is recently deceased; references to transactions to be carried out with the banking house of Strahan [i.e. Stahan, Paul, and Bates] indicate that the letter was written before the failure of that firm in 1855.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Concerning financial and legal transactions involved in disbursing money to Madame de Bury (with references to debts incurred by Caldwell's sister Anne Dunbar), as well as for arranging for the reinterment of the body of her brother George Caldwell, and the payment for a new tomb to mark his new grave site.