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Letter from Augusta FitzPatrick, Templemore, to Madame Blaze de Bury, 1859 September 14 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
435000
Accession number
MA 14300.205
Creator
FitzPatrick, Augusta, 1811?-1899, sender.
Display Date
Templemore, Ireland, 1859 September 14.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 items (4 pages) ; 18 x 11.2 cm
Notes
Year of writing suggested by related correspondence.
Written from "Lisduff, Errill, Templemore / Ireland".
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Writing of the weather and their pleasant stay with Lord Albemarle; saying that she intends to take her son to Paris, asking if an apartment previously mentioned to her by Madame de Bury is likely to be available for rent during their stay, and wondering what they should bring with them to Paris in the way of household goods, saying that she is reading Eothen again, and remarking on how much she is enjoying it ("No wonder you admire it."); writing that she has heard from "young Lytton" and asking Madame de Bury "where do you think he is likely to be this winter?"; stating that (her daughters) Gertrude and Aimée are "leading a quiet & healthy life in Scotland" and are expected to join her in the second week of October; complaining of the extreme dullness of their present company in Ireland; saying that she is preparing some letters for publication, and asking after (Alexander William) Kinglake (the author of Eothen).