BC RF/103/11/15: Letter reporting that Miss [Sarah] Fitton is in London, [c. 1850]

BC RF/103/11/15: Letter reporting that Miss [Sarah] Fitton is in London, [c. 1850]

Letter reporting that Miss [Sarah] Fitton is in London. 'I think she left me in dudgeon' because MC would not write again to EJR about 'Miss Skerrett's having sent her a young lady'. 'We are in a very Cackley(?) state here [in France] the President is a rascal the Chamber a den of Coxcombs the people are absurd', but she hopes that M. Mohl's Persian work 'which the [1848] revolution entirely stopped' will be recontinued, and that she can publish M. Fauriel's lectures on Dante. She reports Mme Arconati's comments on Harriet Martineau's "Household education"; that Thackeray has been in Paris - but MC chose to go to the opera rather than meet him ('I am getting old for Lion loving') -; and that her brother in law Robert [von Mohl] 'wants to take Ida [his daughter] from me'. She recommends that EJR meets 'my darling Emma Weston'.

Mary Clarke (Madame Julius Mohl)

The Elizabeth Jesser Reid Papers are part of the Bedford College archive held at Royal Holloway, University of London Archives

Royal Holloway, University of London

[c.1850]

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BC RF/103/11/15