[Baroness von Bunsen (née Frances Waddington), hostess and biographer, wife of the celebrated Baron von Bunsen.] Autograph Letter Signed to 'Mrs. Hall', giving her reasons for declining an invitation, and referring to her husband's illness.

See her husband’s entry in the Oxford DNB. The couple married in Rome in 1817, ‘in the chapel of Niebuhr's residence, the Palazzo Savelli. The couple had ten children, five sons and five daughters, including the biblical scholar Ernest Christian Ludwig de Bunsen. Born at Dunston Park, Berkshire, on 4 March 1791 and educated by her mother at Llanofer, Frances von Bunsen did not visit her native country for twenty-one years after her marriage.’ The recipient is presumably an in-law: her younger sister Augusta had married Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover. 3pp, 16mo. Bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded for postage. Addressed to ‘Mrs. Hall’ and signed ‘F Bunsen’. She hopes it will be possible for her to ‘contrive to call upon you, according to your kind invitation, in the course of Tuesday afternoon’. She is ‘taken up’ at present ‘by the presence of several near & dear relations, & by the fine weather, & by the visits of birds of passage.’ Her husband Baron von Bunsen has been ‘seriously ill ever since his Swiss journey, & is only so far amended as to make it possible for me to leave him for a walk or drive.’ Her daughters ‘had engaged themselves’ before the recipient’s note came.