I was very happy also to see you once more, and I hope you will return to us this summer. I see by your letter that you have not been to Italy, as you had proposed to do. Have you not been able to sell your property? We often have visitors from France, who are the echo of what is happening in our unhappy country.
I am engaged upon a work which will explain many things. It will not be amusing, but it will contain the truth.
Receive, my dear Madame Cornu, the assurance of my sincere friendship.
The Empress wrote you two letters from Spain. Did you get them? She sends a thousand amiable things to you, as does the Prince.
Napoléon.
“The Empress has been suffering.”
Chislehurst,
May 5, 1872.
My dear Madame Cornu,
I take advantage of a post to tell you that the Empress has been suffering very much, but that she has now recovered, and that the Prince and I are quite well.
I received your letter of the 30th [of April], but have only time to thank you for it in the Empress’s name, and to renew the assurance of my sincere friendship.