Unidad documental simple 12 - Letter from Caroline Milnes to her brother Robert Pemberton Milnes

1 folded sheet.

Nice, addressed to Robert P. Milnes at Fryston and redirected to Bawtry. - Discussion of their future movements; sounds as if they may well meet at Rome. Thinks she and her party should stay in Nice until June as they have paid a reasonable amount for their rooms until then, and so have the Wyvills; may seem strange that. Mr W. is bent upon going further South in the summer by the way of being cool', he has heard some 'glowing descriptions of Lucca which have taken great possession of his mind'. He hopes it will be possible to get cheap rooms there, as 'Most of the best English (in the worldly acceptatation [?] of that word) will be returning home for the Coronation [of Queen Victoria], & you know it is that order of Gentry who make prices high on the Continent'.

Discussion of forthcoming marriage of Lord Galway and Robert Milnes' daughter and of Richard's 'new career', as well as society at Nice