Letter from Gertrude Valentine FitzPatrick, London, to Madame Blaze de Bury,1860? January 30 : autograph manuscript signed.

Writing to inform her that her mother (Augusta FitzPatrick) and sisters have arrived from Ireland and have gone to stay with Sir Thomas Sebright in Hertfordshire and that they do not therefore propose starting for Paris until the 6th or 7th of February; asking after the weather in Paris, as her brother "has been ordered to avoid damp as much as possible" and her mother would prefer to keep him in Herefordshire a few days longer should the weather in Paris "not be propitious"; hoping that they will stay in Paris until May and see a great deal of Madame Blaze de Bury; asking if there are many English in Paris and that they will need a hairdresser and dressmaker during their stay; noting that her aunt and uncle would like her to stay on with them for a month in London when the rest of her family leaves for Paris, but she does not intend to "though London is pleasant enough as far as society goes this time of year.".