Item 33 - Letter from Henrietta Eliza Milnes to her father Robert Pemberton Milnes

Milan, addressed to Robert Milnes c/o the Hon/. Lady Smith, Piccadilly, and forwarded to him at Fryston. - Enclosing a letter [no longer present] which has just arrived. They set off tomorrow for Bergamo and will return early on Tuesday morning. They have received Robert's letters from Utrecht and Rotterdam. Thanks him for 'such a long and charming letter'; read it to 'old Ciceri who was quite delighted with it'. Assures her father she is reading and singing as much as he wishes. The 'Impresario of the Teatro Re is become a Bankrupt and poor old Bianchi will only get half of his pay'. Tells her father to 'take every precaution against this terrible Cholera'. Adds postscript asking to write to 'Mrs Moore at Sienna [sic] and Dr Ciceri. Her mother is well and glad to have her father's letter