Lady Morgan’s Memoirs
Jerome Bonaparte to Lady Morgan, 22 May 1839
Fenton’s Hotel,
May 22nd, 1839.
Dear Lady Morgan,
I regret very much that I cannot have the pleasure of
passing this evening with you; the news of the death of my uncle, Cardinal Fesch, which has just reached here,
would render my presence too unseasonable. I shall probably leave here on
Friday, for the interior of England, and eventually for Ireland; would you be
so kind as to send in the evening of to-morrow the letter you were good enough
to offer me for Lady Clarke.
I am most truly yours,
Lady Olivia Clarke [née Owenson] (1785 c.-1845)
The younger sister of Lady Morgan who married Dublin physician Sir Arthur Clarke
(1778-1857) in 1808. She wrote songs and a play, and published in the
Metropolitan Magazine and
Athenaeum.
Cardinal Joseph Fesch (1763-1839)
Born in Corsica, he was Archbishop of Lyons (1802) and in 1803 he was appointed by
Napoleon ambassador to Rome.
