1877-summer-a to Mary Blake Moore

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Aet. 25, to his mother about his continuing courtship of Irish heiress Mary de Ros Rose. Mary Ormsby Willington was Mary’s older relation who lived in Paris. The letter mentioned another Irishwoman, Marie-Studolmine Wyse, known as Princess Ratazzi since her second marriage, though she was now a widow.

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