NAPOLÉON IV (1856-1879) Prince Impérial, fils de Napoléon III.

NAPOLÉON IV (1856-1879) Prince Impérial, fils de Napoléon III.

L.A.S. "Napoleon", Camden Place, Chislehurst 10 December 1877, to
Count Bartholomew de LAS CASES Jr| 2 and a half pages in-8, envelope.

Condolences to the grandson of the St. Helena Memorialist,
on the death of his father.

"The news of the death of the Count of Lascases your father has deeply saddened me
. He had by his devotion held to perpetuate a tradition
of family, born in St. Helena, but which has not, I know, died out with
him. I would be very pleased if the expression of sympathy that I send you
from exile could soften the pain of the blow that strikes you, because I cannot
forget that in the land of exile the untiring attachment of one of yours to
consoles the misfortune of the first of my race" .

A page of the Prince's pen-and-ink drawings is attached to the back of a leaflet
of Camden Place letterheaded mourning paper| an invitation card in the name
of the Earl of Las Cases, for the ceremonies of the Prince's majority at
Chislehurst| a l.a.s. from the Duke of BASSANO, to Bishop Félix de Las Cases,
Camden Place December 2, 1877, condolences for the death of his cousin
, on behalf of the Empress and Her Imperial Highness| and a copy
of a letter from Eugenie (February 23, 1873) in response to the condolences of
Las Cases on the death of Napoleon III.