BONAPARTE LOUIS: (1778-1846) King of Holland 1806-10. Younger brother of Napoleon Bonaparte. A good L.S., L. de ...

BONAPARTE LOUIS: (1778-1846) King of Holland 1806-10. Younger brother of Napoleon Bonaparte. A good L.S., L. de St.Leu, two pages, 4to, Rome, 8th April 1825, to an unidentified Colonel, in French. Bonaparte signs using his title of Count of Saint-Leu, a title making reference to his property at Saint-Leu-la-Foret near Paris, and states in part `I have received your letter dated 5th, I had already received the health report of my sister. Do not miss giving me all possible details. I do not know when I will be able to go to Florence precisely because of the state of my own health..´, further and referring to his brother, Louis Bonaparte says `You have not told me if you had made the offer to my brother about staying at the villa, and why he did not accept. I would like to know clearly what can I expect about Monsieur Collini´s offer before my departure.´ Before concluding, Bonaparte refers again to his sister and family stating `I send you a letter attached for my sister, give it to her when she will be in good conditions to receive it. Go and see my brother-in-law and tell him that mum, myself, and we all here are very grateful for the care he is taking of my sister and that we thank him for this.´ With blank integral leaf. Folded. Small overall minor age wear with an extremely small area of paper loss to the bottom edge, otherwise G Pauline Bonaparte (1780-1825) Duchess of Guastalla. Favourite younger sister of Napoleon Bonaparte. Pauline was of frail health for much of her life her life. She died on 9 June 1825, only two months after the present letter´s date, at the age of forty-four at the Palazzo Borghese. The cause of death being given as 'tumor on the stomach' but it may have been tuberculosis. Camillo Filippo Borghese (1775-1832) Prince of Sulmona and Rossano and Prince of Guastalla, a member of the Borghese family. Although Camillo Borghese had a ten year relationship with a mistress and distanced himself from Pauline after Waterloo, Pauline persuaded Pope Pius VII to convince her husband to return to her only three months before her death, short before the present letter was written. Letizia Buonaparte (1750-1836) born Ramolino. Italian noble, mother of Napoleon I.