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

Enclosing a communication from (Ernst) Haberbier (evidently an appeal for financial assistance), stating that she is unable to help him as she hasn't "£5 much less £50 in the world of my own", but that she might be able to borrow £20 to lend him if she could be sure of its being repaid "within a certain given time"; explaining that she would not ask her family for the loan "because of their wholesale prejudice against the artist strike; urgently requesting Madame Blaze de Bury's advice and asking her if she thinks Haberbier "is a man to be depended upon"; adding that she has been warned by others that he is "a person whom one sd be on one's guard with" and that she is doesn't feel as sure of him as she formerly did, that he has written to another person with a request for £25, and that he had complained to her of receiving only £5 from Mrs. (Harriet) Grote for playing at her house and that others had contacted him offering similarly modest sums; stating that she does not like "his system of pooh-poohing direct remuneration" while asking to borrow money, but that she will do all she can for him if Madame de Bury says that he can be depended upon, and saying that in the meantime, she intends to send him £5 "for music wh. he sent me"; expressing her fear that he will ask for money from people to whom she has recommended him and remarking that she has misgivings about him; thanking Rose for her kindness to (her brother) Montagu (Blackett) who is now "in the wilds of Tipperary"; adding a p.s. stating that she will not send Haberbier the £5 until she has heard from Madame Blaze de Bury, as she is very afraid of "wounding his susceptabilities."