Letter from Lady Sydney Morgan, London, to Madam Rose Blaze de Bury, 1858 December 13 : manuscript in the hand of an amanuensis, signed.

Expressing her vexation at losing the opportunity of having Blaze de Bury translate her "little work" (i.e. her An odd volume extracted from an autobiography), and adding that "As far as [Richard] Bentley is concerned ir is no advantage to have translations made into French as no one here would read them, & in general they sell the copyrights of translations", and offering to send her the proof sheets to dispose of on her own account, writing "you may depend upon it, it will be translated by somebody, as my first work on France was translated under the surviellance of the police"; thanking her for sending her an engraved portrait (after a painting by Ary Scheffer) of General Lafayette, remarking "I sat about the same time for my portrait at Lagrange"; mentioning Lady Easthope and "Mr. Cook"; promising to send her an engraving of herself "the last I shall ever sit for"; asking "What possession do the Doctrinaires hold now in France - Mons. Guisot's [i.e. François Guizot] Memoirs have not taken here"; asking if she ever sees the "Saturday review", "one of our best weekly papers."