Autograph Letter Signed 'Marochetti' in French with translation to 'Miss Emily',
promising to do all I can to come and see you this evening but I am dining in town... do not doubt my good intention if I find no way to come, 1 side 8vo., Wednesday, no place, no date, circa
Marochetti came to London at the Paris uprising of 1848. He sculpted a statue of Richard Coeur-de-Lion for the Great Exhibition of 1851, which was cast in bronze by public subscription, and placed outside the House of Lords at Westminster. He also made statues of Queen Victoria and Wellington, and the Inkerman memorial in St. Paul's Cathedral.(Translation) Wednesday. Dear Miss Emily, I will do all I can to come and see you this evening, but I am dining in town and have another engagement, do not doubt my good intention if I find no way to come. Your most devoted Marochetti. Monsieur M. has arrived in Greece. Can he send him your letter?