D ORSAY Alfred Count - ALS 1848 mentioning Lady Blessington Autograph Type_Documents and Letters

D ORSAY Alfred Count - ALS 1848 mentioning Lady Blessington Autograph Type_Documents and LettersAlfred, Count DORSAY (1801 1852) Autograph Letter Signed (A dOrsay) to an unnamed correspondent, probably an art publisher, 1 page 8vo on gilt edged paper with integral blank leaf, Gore House [Kensington], 30 August 1848. I think that you will find that I have much improved the likeness. Lady Blessington and the Misses Power [evidently relatives of Lady Blessington, whose maiden name was Power] are of this opinion I hope that you will let me have a

The friendship between the aristocratic

Replying to the booksellers’ letter of 18 February of that year

though obviously written by an Englishman

Pirko-Liisa Stahl

“I think that you will find that I have much improved the likeness

Photograph Signed (“Montgomery of Alamein”)

she is interested and she is a broker who is good [i

& to have you say the things you did about me has bucked us up – both of us – more than we can say

As to the Manchester panels – I was rather surprised

14 June 1972

been an ardent Royalist

Six months later