Autograph letter signed to Madame Mohl, English-French head of a salon

Biographer (1792-1878). 2pp., 4to (airmail-type paper). She sends good wishes and her sympathy for Madame Mohl's abandonment of her "visiting course" in England through indisposition, depriving her of "long leisurely talks & drives". She recalls the first of their "causeries" "when my carriage waited 2 hours in the street, servants marvelling at the lapse of time during which I remained in the twilight, "prosing" wi[th] you, unconscious of the darkening shadows". She describes her recent illness, some travels, and visits (e.g. Bowood and Lord Stanhope's "where we had an agreeable literaryt party"). The "madcap" Madame de Quaire has left them for Paris and will be able to bring Madame up to date. She has a copy of her book, recently published [Collected Papers] which Lavergue of Michel Chevalier could lend her. She has not sent her a copy because she can borrow it but also she is familiar with the principal articles already. News of Milner's health. She gossips a little ("Our Ministry is said the be very shaky. The chief offices are filled by old men, & some of them infirm in health . . . though I hear the Premier is stout & active as usual". They had a visit at Chevening from Lord Stanley.