Lettre autographe signée, adressée à Mlle Souvestre. « November 4th »; 16 pages in-12. Sur papier à en-tête du « 34, de Vere-Gardens » (Kensington, Londres).
« Dear Mademoiselle […]. I have come back from the country without having written to you again, but I will not come another hour. I took a chill while away which give me a violent cold so that I felt quite too little inactive of any faculties to hold epistolary ... with a lady of your formidable nation ! I will writing these next days, …………… to two friends of mine, one in New York and one in Washington, ………… M. Ribot, so that we will be so good as to call after ... they will be …… prepare to give him a friendly welcome of propose ……… rather than reasons .... impact to you ............ that I have for a long time part found myself forced to observe very religiously ……………………… of not going direct introductions in America to any person with ………… I have not direct personal acquaintance (buy) constant abscence from my owne country has …………… very much the intuinacy of any social relations …… …… it is a simple fact that will ………………… in the americans cities few persons (whose acquaintance would be worth a visitor sanking with whose I am in such terms as to make it all geither confortable to a stranger however
