Signature (clipped) "Lucia E. Abell", friend of Napoleon in exile.
Author:
Lucia Elizabeth ?Betsy? Balcombe Abell (1802-1871), friend of Napoleon I during his exile at Saint Helena.
Publication details:
No place or date.
£135.00
SKU: 12396
Piece of paper, 9 x 2.5cm, on part of an album leaf, 20 x 4cm, good condition. With a note about Mrs Abell's maiden name, the Briars and Napoleon, part pencil, part ink, different hands, the note in ink being older. On revererse, possibly in Mrs Abell's hand, a few words with date, "1825 | London Jan. tenth | S Dunelm".