BIB_ID
80310
Accession number
MA 2587
Creator
Arnold, Matthew, 1822-1888.
Display Date
1875 March 25.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.9 x 11.3 cm
Notes
The identity of the Comtesse De La Feld is from a letter from Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr., Department of English, University of Virginia dated July 9, 1968 to Herbert Cahoon, Curator of Autograph Manuscripts at The Morgan Library. He discusses the relationship of the family of John Ross Delafield to the Arnold family and the likelihood that the De La Feld family was the Continental branch of the Delafield family. He discusses the genealogy of the connections in detail and identifies the Comtesse as the wife of Joseph Delafield (1819-1869).
Written from the Athenæum Club on Club stationery blind-embossed with the Club crest.
Written from the Athenæum Club on Club stationery blind-embossed with the Club crest.
Summary
Discussing her son's wish to move to England; saying that it would not be possible for her son to stay with him; saying he is very flattered, but it is impossible as he could not take on that responsibility, and because he does not live in London, her son would not have access to the educational facilities that a young man wishing to enter the diplomatic service needs; asking if she is certain that the promise made by Lord Granville to find a place for her son in the diplomatic service will be honored by Granville's successor, Lord Derby; advising her that if she is certain her son can be nominated to a position in the diplomatic service she should come with him to London and choose his house and teacher; adding that there are a number of families in London who will take in young men who will have a diplomatic or military career but she will need to be in London to make that decision; concluding that it is essential, above all, that she determine whether Lord Derby will honor the promise made by Lord Granville of a post for her son.
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