Catalogue description Charles de la Barre Bodenham and his wife Irena [daughter of Joseph Dzierzykraj-Morawska of Oporow, Grand-Duchy of Posen] with a few letters from other Polish friends, especially Marie. The letters were written from the family home at Rotherwas (Herefs.) from Rome, Paris, Geneva, Brussels, Breslau, Bad Gastein, Oporow, [Poland],Munich and elsewhere to the same at Downing, Newnham Paddox, Rome, Paris, Niederbrun (Bas Rhin), Eaton Square, Eaton Place, and Wyvenhoe Park: they are personal letters written in an affectionate and light-hearted vein, many of them about Princess Helene Sangousska, probably a relative of Irena's to whom Feilding had proposed marriage, and about her family's reaction to this. A letter of January 1855 refers to the Pope's [Pius IX] proclamation of the Immaculate Conception; others of 1857 to a woman claiming to be the daughter of George IV and Mrs. Fitzherbert (who also asserted that she had been born with three crowns tattoed upon her person) and to Mary Berkeley, Lord Feilding's second wife. (About 60 items, some of them in French).