Letter from Jessey Mary de Lariss, London, to Madam Rose Blaze de Bury, 1845? April 7 : autograph manuscript signed.

Asking why Madame Blaze de Bury has not written to her for so long, expressing her desire to have her visit them in their "small but pretty house", writing longingly of Paris, mentioning that she has been hearing a great deal of a friend of hers named M. Dessauer(?) (probably a reference to the composer Josef Dessauer) from a Mrs. Roberts "who met him last autumn at Boulogne", and recounting the contents of a letter he sent her stating that he is "much inclined to come to here" and that "he is being tormented to write for the grand opera" and was sent a poem that was bloody and cruel "& not at all to his taste"; writing that she has no news to impart and lamentimg that she has had little music and dancing, "Politic, the corn-laws, income tax, are the only topics of conversation; & the lamentable Indian question has put everybody into fits of the Blue devils", mentioning a visit from the Havershams, and that her sister is not well, having not fully recovered from an attack of measles.