Letter from Archibald Rowan Hamilton and Catherine Ann Rowan Hamilton, Ireland?, to Rose Blaze de Bury, 1856? : autograph manuscript signed.

Responding to a letter from Rose Blaze de Bury with cautionary advice regarding her financial situation and personal expenditures; writing that they were "much pleased" to hear "so good an account of your literary labors," objecting to any implied charges that he "did not do justice to the gallant exertions" she has made following Mrs. [Anne] Dunbar's death, as he has "always spoken of your great energy with admiration - and with hope", going on to state, however, that he has regretted that her income has not been sufficiant to cover her expenditures and has led her to spend her capital, adding that "arithmatic is a stubborn science which will not bend to meet our inclinations ... I feel that a person living on their capital is on the road to ruin - and therefore I much regretted finding that it was agreed you should start in life on your own account by spending all the money to be realized by Ellis's mortgage"; lamenting that "If all the money Mrs. Dunbar wasted in foolish speculations" had been "properly invested", Blaze de Bury would have had enough income, when combined with the proceeds from her writing, to render her comfortable, stating that, had she invested Ellis's money he "should have thought it wise and have gladly have contributed to it"; warning her further against the dangers of exceeding her income and of borrowing money to cover the shortfall, with references to the financial ruination of his own father; informing her of the approaching marriage of his brother George [Rowan Hamilton] to [Caroline Frederica] Hart. Letter from Catherine Ann Rowan Hamilton continues on page [4]: Asking Rose de Bury if she would send her a packet of French chrysanthemum seeds and promising to reimburse her for them when she visits them the following year "when you are to write an Irish tome; writing that she is sending her daughter to a school in Bolougne; assuring her that she will like Emily Smythe and that the girl "will be most glad of your acquaintance."