CATHARINA OF WURTTEMBERG: (1783-1835) Queen Consort of Westphalia 1807-13, wife of Jerome ...

CATHARINA OF WURTTEMBERG: (1783-1835) Queen Consort of Westphalia 1807-13, wife of Jerome Bonaparte. A.L.S., with her initial C, two pages, 8vo, n.p., 25th August 1826, to Monsieur Girard, in French. The former Queen announces 'You probably thought for a long time that we are well settled in Porto-di-fermo, surrounded by the same people who had welcomed us so kindly last year; Oh well! Then, you are just dreaming and this new settlement was about to end the same way as the one in Eslau, you know how sad I was!' and continues to inform her correspondent 'Fortunately, the injustice of this misery was very obvious and we are now very positive about the near future. For the end of this summer, we will spend it in Mecerata, my children are now on their way over there and we will join them next Saturday', concluding 'I can not start telling you the pleasure I had of receiving your letters, and also the one for my daughter, she got shy because she ignores my maternal judgement upon these things, but after she remembered how good you are and always have been to us……it is of course redundant to assure you that everywhere I go, I never forget you'. In a postscript she further adds 'Jerome is staying in Rome until the end of the month, and then he will have 5 to 8 weeks vacation. You know what this separation means to me'. With blank integral leaf and a small typed caption neatly affixed at the base of the first page. Together with Duke Paul Wilhelm of Wurttemberg (1797-1860) German Naturalist & Explorer who discovered the sources of the Missouri River in 1829. Brief A.L.S., Paul William, Prince of Wurttemberg, one page, 8vo, Hoboken, 22nd June 1854, to Andrew Crosman, sending his autograph with pleasure for their collection. One lengthy tear to the upper left corner, slightly affecting a few words of text and a little crudely repaired with tape to the verso. G to VG, 2