Letter from Charles Taylor, Liphook, to Madame Rose Blaze de Bury, 1847 January 4 : autograph manuscript signed.

Writing to give her an account of (his sister) Emily (Brougham and Vaux) who recently gave birth, and who is reportedly doing well; remarking that Emy's jaw "is by no means right", but that he sanguine that it will become so; remarking that the house is "a gayer place for juveniles than grown up bipeds" and complaining that he has been obliged to give up staying in Paris during the current year, and will consequently be staying in London instead; expressing the hope that the letters she entrusted to him "were of no great importance", and noting that the one addressed to Lord Nugent had presumably "lost nothing of its value for being a month on the road", adding, "I hope the other was of the same nature"; mentioning the famine in Ireland: "People go on starving in Ireland at a fearful rate - they are actually beginning to revolt - I thought they had been accustomed to it. One good that will come out of the famine is that all the (...illegible?) landowners will be ruined - a class whose ignorance & prejudice have done more to injure Ireland than anything else."; informing her that he left Paris on the first night of "Agnès de Méranie", and adding "but it is trash, is it not?"; expressing his hope that he will meet her in the autumn at Brougham; with a postscript noting that he is writing to Madame Blaze de Bury on his 30th birthday.