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Letter from Caroline Langford, Boulogne, to Rose Blaze de Bury, 1860? : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
437436
Accession number
MA 14300.273
Creator
Langford, Caroline, sender.
Display Date
Boulogne, France, 1860?
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 items (4 pages) ; 21.3 x 13.6 cm
Notes
Written from "Hotel de l'Europe".
Year of writing suggested by internal evidence; the reference to a strike that has delayed work on the house in London may refer to the London builders' strike of 1859; remarks on the Pope and Emperor Napoleon III's "hasty war" may refer to the events concerned in the Second Italian War of Independance, April 29, 1859-July11, 1859.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Writing that "Minnie" has been ill and that they have been detained at times by the fact that she could not be safely moved, stating that her painful condition has been attributed to neuralgia, and "left her for days after ech attack in a state of almost coma"; remarking that she would like to get settled in their new home in London by the end of February, although "the strike has hitherto prevented its beining finished"; mentioning that "Captain Langford has been in London; remarking "The Pope etc. - what a complication! No way to be seen out of it I fear without fearful struggle" and stating that the Emperor must repent "his hasty war"; writing that she is happy to be moving to the London, although she fears "the girls may hate it", and commenting that "Paris & London tho too delightful are good for nothing for English girls - they are too much amused to wish to marry - at least so I find with Minnie & Charlotte."