Letter from Frances Mary Blackett du Quaire, London?, to Baroness Marie Blaze de Bury, 1853 August 21 : autograph manuscript signed with initial.

Writing that her plans for an upcoming visit Paris have been "knocked on the head" but that she will attempt to visit Paris in winter and asking Madame Blaze de Bury if there is any "decent respectable sort of woman" with whom she might stay while there; adding that it cannot be a "pension" as "The idea of my going to a pension wd. set all my people screaming" and they would "very likely shut me up in a mad house"; describing the accommodations she would need and specifying that she would not want to stay "with an English person or with any one connected with that vile gossippy [sic] English clique"; asking her to tell no one of her plans, as she thinks she "might bring my Brother around to letting me pass a few months in Paris", but that he is "almost as much pestered by advice giving relations" as she is, who would "set upon him and say that the idea was utterly monstrous" were they to learn of her intentions; saying that she is staying with her Burgoyne cousins and complaining of the boredom and her own lack of patience with her circumstances; mentioning the current political situation and saying that she horrified at Blaze de Bury's "political confession", adding "you ought to rejoice - for the Emperor's triumph is as complete as our humiliation - he has got all he wanted from Turkey"; asking after Mrs. Dunbar.