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Box III

Folder 13

Maury Family Papers

5 February 1862, [John] C[handler] B[ancroft] Davis, London, [Eng.], to Rutson Maury, [Liverpool, Eng.]. 2pp. Cy of LS

[Cy by Rutson Maury.]

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London 5 February 1862

My dear Sir

Many thanks for your letter of the 4th, which will give us the only news of home we shall get before reaching Paris, as we ordered our letters to go there We shall leave her for Paris day after tomorrow

I had a very interesting interview with Mr Greg yesterday, & am to meet him again tomorrow. Although disposed a little to go against us, I think him the most intelligent man on American matters I have met.

I called two or three times at the Athenceum to see Sir Charles Trevilgan; & at last left my letter with my card. I have not yet had the pleasure of seeing him.

I have also seen Mssr Benson & Co.

The other gentleman to whom you have sent me letters, are not yet in town, & I shall have to leave without seeing them.

Great confidence is felt here that no vote hostile to America can be carried at the beginning of the Sessions

faithfully yours

(signed) J.C.B. Davis

To Rutson Maury Esq

Note on the above, for Miss Maury.

I gave Mr. Davis on the 4th inst pretty copious extracts from your first letter to me from Highwood of the 17th Jany., including the accident to the old servant man, & his treatment, thinking these items might, as it has proved, be news to Mr. Davis. -

To Miss Maury