Letter from Priscilla Anne Fane, Countess of Westmorland, Vienna, to Madame Blaze de Bury, 1852 February 19 : autograph manuscript signed.

Enclosing a letter of introduction for Lady Cortez, explaining that she was delayed in writing it by the demands of the carnival season in Vienna, and that she has brought her daughter out and is therefore obliged to stay up late at balls ("a practice quite foreign to my habits for very many years"); noting that they do not maintain the "exuberant pitch of enthusiasm which the native Viennese show for dancing", with "most of the young ladies going out every night to balls which last tilll 8 in the morning", but that she finds attending balls 2 or 3 times a week at the Emperor's or Archduchess Sophie's to be exhausting enough; adding that she is "delighted" with Madame Blaze de Bury's account of Lord Brougham as she was uneasy about him, and that she is pleased to hear that she is "so well satisfied with what is going on in France."