Letter from Priscilla Anne Fane, Countess of Westmorland, London, to Madame Blaze de Bury, 1856 May 27 : autograph manuscript signed.

Writing that Lord Cavendish fears that the market has become glutted with "the number of foreign Professors, Singers, Pianists, & Instrumental Players" and that "He receives every day recommendations, & it is impossible to find patronage for a quarter of those who come over expecting to make a fortune in England"; remarking, however, that, with the exception of Clara Schumann, "(who is wonderful & pleasing & a most interesting Person", "no superior talent has appeared"; noting that there is an opening for a tenor at Lumley's Theatre, and advising that "if Salieri is capable of taking an engagement for the stage, I have no doubt Lumley wd. give him one", suggesting that "it might be worth his while to come over to be heard if he cd get some Professional person to recommend his to Lumley", or that he might "sing gratis at a concert or two" to secure an engagement, but warning her that "any thing not really very superior must fail", given that the "quantity of respectable mediocrity in Musical talent is so great."; writing of her grief at her son's (Julian Fane) appointment to St. Petersburg, acknowledging her good fortune in having him always with her fr so long, and lamenting that "now I lone in him not only the best & dearest of sons, but the friend & companion who is the sunshine & joy of my Life", complaing of the inaccessibility of St. Petersburg; informing her that Lord Brougham comes to see her often, and that he seems to her to be "very low" in spirits.