Letters found in an enclosure inscribed ‘Affaires Diverses’, including correspondence between Adelaide de Montgolfier and Louise Swanton Belloc. Contents as follows:
Letter from J Bibron [Jeanne Bibron, née Belloc, known as Jenny, sister-in-law of L S B] to ‘Chère Mademoiselle’ 27 July 1871;
Letter from Louise Swanton Belloc to Adelaide de Montgolfier, no date (circa 1850?);
Letter from ? to Adelaide de Montgolfier, no date;
Undated letter (writer and recipient unknown), mentioning Mme de Montmorency and translation into English of les ‘souvenirs de Mme de Crequis’ [?Victoire, Marquise de Créquy];
Letters from Louise Swanton Belloc and Adelaide de Montgolfier to ‘Mon cher fils’ or 'Mon cher enfant [Louis Marie Belloc] [some undated, but all 1850s?];
Letter from ? to ‘ma chère fille’, from La Celle 2 July 1867;
Letter from L S B to ‘mon enfant’ [probably Louis Marie Belloc] from Paris December 1849;
Letter from L S B to ‘mon cher ami’, from Paris 1850;
Letter from [?] L S B to [Louis?], from La Celle, no year, including a note from Adelaide de Montgolfier;
Letter from G de Canson to ?, no date;
Two letters from [?] Lemaire to ? (Vénérée Demoiselle / Mademoiselle et très excellente amie), from La Celle 1870;
Letter from C Edgeworth to Mrs Parkes Belloc [Bessie], from Oxford, 17 November 1881, in English, with condolences from herself and ‘my son-in-law and daughter Mr and Mrs Butler’ on the death of Louise Swanton Belloc;
Letter from Lily [Ballot, daughter of Louise Swanton Belloc] to Bessie Parkes concerning the death of an aunt, no date;
Letter from ? to Bessie [Belloc], from Villers (Calvados), 24 August 1882;
Lily [Ballot, nee Adelaide Belloc] to ‘Chère Marraine’ [Adelaide de Montgolfier, her godmother], from Paris 1870, beginning ‘René [Millet, Lily's son] est sain et sauf, je l’ai embrassé après le combat’;
Note from Lily re Charles and René [her sons], nd;
Letter from [Lily?] to ‘Chère bonne marraine’ [Adelaide de Montgolfier], no date [circa 1871?], ‘Bonnes nouvelles de René et de Jacques’, talks of ‘attaque Prussienne’;
Small batch of correspondence between Adelaide de Montgolfier and Louise Swanton Belloc, also some letters to Louis Belloc from Adelaide de Montgolfier?, circa 1849 to circa 1851.