BONAPARTE (Charles). Autograph letter signed "... Lot 49

BONAPARTE (Charles). Autograph letter signed " De Buonaparte ", addressed [to Count Louis Joseph Vincent de Mondion d'Artigny]. Ajaccio, June 1, 1783. 2 pp. in-4. " ... I have just sent to my commissioner, in Marseilles, A PACKAGE FOR YOU ... CONTAINING TWO CRESPINS, AND THREE BOOKS OF FOAM which we had difficulty in getting picked up, because that of good quality has become rare, by dint of sending abroad, so that today we send to the merchants all kinds of mother's beard. You can count on THAT THAT YOU WILL RECEIVE IS OF THE BEST QUALITY POSSIBLE. The packet should cost you fifteen pounds all inclusive, and when you want moss, you will warn me in advance, and it will cost you, to get it good, thirty pounds a pound, and you can make cheap cadots. You must be persuaded, Sir, and Madam Countess, of the pleasure we shall have in seeing you again, but it depends very much on the azard, since MY GIRL HAS OBTAINED THE PLACE FOR THE NEXT YEAR 1784 [ELISA Bonaprte had been accepted at the institution for young girls at Saint-Cyr], and it may be possible, however, for us to go to Paris in the next hyver, if the Minister grants us permission to bring our little one. MADe DE BUONAPARTE [LETIZIA Ramolino] and moy, we are sensitive to the memory of mademoiselle de Mondion, and we ask you to assure her of our sincere attachment... »