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Letter in French from the wife of diplomat Austin Lee of the British Embassy in Paris, buying seats at a fundraiser for the British Red Cross.
You would be very kind to reserve for me for your British Red Cross matinee on December 18th four 5th or 6th row orchestral chairs. I believe the price is 50f per seat?
I regret having missed the occasion of --- but I was very busy and could not attend the ceremony....
Notes at bottom "Mme Austin Lee Ambassade d’Angleterre" and "De la part de MMe la Ctesse --- avec ses meilleurs souvenirs"
Horizontal and vertical folds. Toning on back.
23 x 17.50 cm
Sir Henry Austin Lee, KCMG, CB (6 April 1847 − 7 November 1918) was a British diplomat, governor and landowner. He was counselor of embassy, commercial attache for France, Belgium, and Switzerland.
In December 1887 he was appointed Second Secretary to the Paris Embassy and acted as Private Secretary to the Ambassador, Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton. In 1891 he was selected to represent the British Government on the Council of the Suez Canal Company. In February 1892 he was appointed First Secretary in the Diplomatic Service and on the appointment of the Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Marquis of Dufferin and Ava as Ambassador in Paris, Lee became his Private Secretary, and continued in that capacity until the Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood's retirement in October 1896, when he was appointed Commercial Attache to Embassy in the place of Sir Joseph Archer Crowe.
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