BIB_ID
436865
Accession number
MA 14300.277
Creator
Lariss, Jessey Mary de, 1819-1893, sender.
Display Date
Paris, France, 1845 July 8.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 15.9 x 10.2 cm
Notes
Date of writing from postmark.
Signed "Jessey M. Paterson".
Addressed to "Dearest Rose".
Written from "Enghien les Bains"; dated "Tuesday."
With postmarked address panel: Madame / Madame la Baronne Blaze de Bury / rue neuve du Luxembourg 18 / à Paris.
At the time of writing, Rose Blaze de Bury was evidently pregnant with her first child, the author and literary critic Yetta Blaze de Bury (1845?-1902).
Signed "Jessey M. Paterson".
Addressed to "Dearest Rose".
Written from "Enghien les Bains"; dated "Tuesday."
With postmarked address panel: Madame / Madame la Baronne Blaze de Bury / rue neuve du Luxembourg 18 / à Paris.
At the time of writing, Rose Blaze de Bury was evidently pregnant with her first child, the author and literary critic Yetta Blaze de Bury (1845?-1902).
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Concerning Madame Blaze de Bury's health (i.e. her pregnancy), and writing that although she dreads de Bury's approaching "hour of anguish", she will be "too thankful to hear of its all being safely over"; extending an invitation to dine with them and remarking that she hopes she will come before she runs away "for I hope what is to prove a happy release to you of your 'incumberance' who I hope will make up to you for all the suffering he will cause you at first"; noting that they went to Franconi's (Cirque Olympique) the previous evening with "Mrs. Hay", mentioning mutual acquaintances who are not, she deems, "the brightest of the bright", and remarking on the popular song "One struggle more" ("I often wish that song would come to its last struggle & have done with it").
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