Bidspirit auction | MORGAN SYDNEY, LADY: (c.1778-1859)

MORGAN SYDNEY, LADY: (c.1778-1859) - MORGAN SYDNEY, LADY: (c.1778-1859) Sydney Owenson. Irish novelist, best known for her romantic novel The Wild Irish Girl (1806). A.L.S., S Morgan , two pages (written to the first and third sides of the bifolium), 8vo, Hôtel de la Terrasse, Rue de Rivoli (Paris), n.d. ( ´Jeudi soir 7 heures´ ), to an unidentified correspondent, in French. Lady Morgan states that ´En rentrant chez nous ce moment nous avons trouvé l´aimable billet de Monsieur Julien´ (Translation: ´On returning home just then, we found a kind note from Mr Julien´ ) and explains that she left it to her husband to reply, and wrote a few kind words regarding a visit planned for the following day ´au premier Porte de la France´ (Translation: ´to the First Gate of France´ ) and further remarking ´Je comptais le faire samedi mais j´avais oublié un engagement que j´avais pris pour ce jour, depuis une semaine´ (Translation: ´I had intended to go on Saturday, but I had forgotten a commitment I’d made for that day a week ago´ ). With a contemporary ink annotation and small remnants of an affixed paper label to the head of the first page, otherwise VG