BIB_ID
432652
Accession number
MA 14300.96
Creator
Caldwell, Mary Catherine, 1813-1872, sender.
Display Date
Witley, England, 1859 September 24.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.5 x 11.3 cm
Notes
The screw steam frigate HMS Mersey was commissioned under Captain Henry Caldwell in March of 1859 for the Channel Squadron; ordered in 1860 to North America and the West Indies; and paid off summer of 1862 at Portsmouth.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Expressing her hope that Madame de Bury has retained some of the healthful benefits of "our English air"and that she is not leading too exciting a life back in Paris; also hoping that she will follow through with her "premediatated country trip", although she is unlikely to be "better mounted" than she was with the Duke of Wellington; relating news of her siblings Louisa, Charles, and William, her sister-in-law Eleanor (Bulwer); writing that her brother Henry is currently at Plymouth with the "Mersey", and noting that the Mersey is, thankfully, "an experimental ship" and will not go to China as it is too large for the rivers; informing her that Henry has written to say that his cruise was cut short owing to the foul weather and that the Mersey got separated from the fleet; adding that the ship "acquitted herself well in the rough weather proving herself to be a good sea boat notwithstanding her size."
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