Letter from Louisa Cecilia Harris, Tours, to Rose Blaze de Bury, 1840 November 24 : autograph manuscript signed.

Acknowledging receipt of a parcel of music sent by the recipient, thanking her, and promising to repay her before long by means of a friend who will be in Paris before long; writing that "Every one here is ill and miserable" owing to the weather, complaining of the rain, and remarking "The thrice happy creature, your imagination has painted to you, scouring the country on a white mare, is now sitting like an old maid over the fire, with a spaniel on her lap, labouring under a violent fit of the blue devils"; complaining that there are few English people there, as the "rumours of war" have kept visitors away, and that they are "most particularly in want of young men to make up quadrilles", and urging her friend to send them "any unfortunate youth, whose merits are not sufficiently appreciated in Paris", as "they are certain of being made much of", noting that they have "an awfully stupid regiment of dragoons! - and young men (particularly if they waltz well) are at a premium."; writing that the theatre is good, that they heard from Edward Markham, and that he and his wife are at Naples; mentioning that they saw "Captain and Mrs. Roberts" in England, relaying a question from her mother to Mrs. Dunbar, asking if she knows of a Swiss or French servant who has lived in an English family and who may be trusted to care for a child "of a month old"; noting that the Loire has risen tremendously.