OUIDA (Louise de la Ramee, 1839-1908, Author)

Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs Story saying that she has seen that "General Hamley is in Rome, & I make no doubt you know him well enough to give him a message from me, i.e. that my mother & I should both much like to see him again & that we trust he will let us do so on his way through Florence. Have you yet received your copy of Friendship? I hear your daughter is now with you. Kent's tablet has come late but better than never. As for me I hope they will let my dog's tomb stand, for myself I shd not care so that I were laid in green grass and leafy shades ...", 4 sides 8vo., no place, no date but circa

'Ouida' was born at Bury St. Edmunds of an English mother and French father, who encouraged her in reading history, liberal politics, Balzac and Stendhal. She wrote 'Held in Bondage', 1863, 'Under Two Flags', 1867, melodramatic tales of love and intrigue, and novels such as 'Moths', 1880, and 'A Village Commune', 1881, on social questions. From 1871 she lived in her beloved Florence. The British and American colony there was satirised in her novel, Friendship, 1878, which she mentions in this letter.

Item Date:  1878

Stock No:  39866      £150

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