• Reference
    OR2298/6
  • Title
    Letter (one sheet) from Frances Rouse-Boughton Maison Monton d’Or, Spa to her father thanks for sending Atheneum paper including article reference Mr Macpherson, subject much discussed in Rome last winter.
  • Date free text
    19 June 1854.
  • Production date
    From: 1854 To: 1854
  • Scope and Content
    discusses Villa Medici near Spanish Steps, Rome (national property of the French for ever for young artists to use when studying in Rome) Met up with two acquaintances from Rome in Paris, Mr Furze and Mr Weeble Spa – bad season because of the Crimean War – not yet taken the waters. Sorry to hear father suffering from Bronchitis suggests father meets Mrs Campbell of 6 Portman Square, London. railway to Spa will not be open till September.
  • Level of description
    item