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BURY, Lady Charlotte Susan Maria (1775-1861). Novelist and diarist. Autograph Letter Signed ('Charlotte Maria Bury') to Lady Jersey, 2 pages 4to (soiled on the reverse, one split in the folds), Winchester, 30 May 1825. Pressing her to obtain a subscription at Almack's for Louisa Poulter ('niece of the late Bishop of Winchester consequently a near relation of all the Norths') Almack's Assembly Rooms was a London social club open to both men and women. It was governed by a powerful group of women, among them Sarah Villiers, Countess of Jersey. Provenance: from a collection formed by A.M. Broadley in 1903. [No: 24691] The image is of the second page.
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