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August 3rd 1877 - Letter from Eugénie Mourilyan to her fiancé, Julius Sladden

Date
3rd August 1877
Correspondence From
Eugénie Mourilyan, 188 Boulevard Haussmann, Paris
Correspondence To
Julius Sladden, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire
Relationship to Letter Addressee
Fiancée
Text of Letter

188 Boulevard Haussmann,
Paris

3rd August 1877

My dearest Julius,

Thank you so much for your letter & the nice roses received this morning, they travelled very well & look very pretty on the mantel-piece where I have placed them. I am glad there was one of mine & mean to wear it when I go out this afternoon.  And now I think my darling will be pleased at the news I have to give him. Papa & I are going to England this month, I think about the 18th or 20th if Polly can take us in at that time. Oh! how happy it makes me to think that in three weeks I may perhaps see my Julius again! Our change of plan was occasioned by a letter from Fred Robinson saying he would like to come here about the 5th September, so I persuaded Papa that we had better go to Richmond first & come back with him.  I am very anxious to have the letter saying they can now receive us as I should be very much disappointed to have put off our journey.

I expect Fanny tomorrow, she writes that she will be very much glad of a few days quiet here, they have been travelling rather too quickly, I fancy. While she is here we have got to give a dreadful dinner-party to the Burtons.  I expect that it will be Wednesday, so pity me on that day.  I wrote to Grandma & Charlotte yesterday but did not send any photographs so I have enclosed one of each of us today, to the former, I sent vignettes.

I want to know the name of one of the roses you sent me, it is a white one, just tipped with pink, and with very delicate petals, I think it is lovely & have never seen one quite like it before.

I hope you did not flirt too much with Miss Crusoe on Wednesday while playing croquet?  By the bye, I expect that you will have to come & look after me some day, the curate is getting fearfully attentive, overly in fact. He was here calling yesterday evening.

I have always forgotten to ask you what has been decided about the pews in your church. I hear Marboeuf is to be pulled down in three months’ time as a preparation for building a new church, certainly  not before it is wanted.

Alas my darling I have no more to write about so will close my letter.  Goodbye my own darling,

Ever believe in the love of

Your own affectionate

Eugénie Narcisse Mourilyan
 

Letter Images
Notes
With thanks to Ruth Burn (née Sladden), the great-granddaughter of Eugénie Mourilyan, for transcribing this letter.
Type of Correspondence
Envelope containing 1 double sheet of notepaper
Location of Document
Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service
Record Office Reference
705:1037/9520/1/ii/57-58