Barberey, Helen Bailly de, Paris, France, to Monsignor Robert Seton, Jersey City, New Jersey, 1891 May 4

Two deaths have greatly saddened her. Patrizio Filicchi wrote her regularly and in his own hand made for her copies of all the letters in the correspondence between his father and Mother Elizabeth Bayley Seton. And when she went to Leghorn and Pisa he received her as one of his own. Eight months ago when Barberey's husband visited Filicchi he was failing. There is no doubt that his Ubaldo Filicchi's death was a terrible blow to him. Madame Laura Filicchi de Goracuchi wrote shortly after these two deaths; her letter showed her to be a worthy daughter of her father. Barberey does not know if Giorgio Filicchi is married. Seton's Aunt Mother Catherine Seton for a long time had sent Barberey her recollections; she seemed the living relic of her saintly mother. Barberey is sorry about what Seton wrote of the health of his sister-in-law Sarah Redwood Parrish Seton; the death of her child has broken her. Barberey asks Seton to express her sympathy to William Seton. Barberey's husband has recovered and again enjoys society. Her uncle Baron de Corcelle will be 89 on June 2; he wrote some remarks after reading Count Hubner's "Une Annee de ma Vie." Barberey reads only what is useful to her work; the notes on her maternal family are finished, there remains what concerns her paternal family. She is deep in the period when her grandfather, Count Roederer played his role in politics, 1800 in France, 1807 and 1808 in Naples. He was a friend of Joseph Bonaparte. Barberey asks to be remembered to Robert's sister Elizabeth. She wrote to the Bishop of Vincennes; he has not answered. :: II-1-c A.L.S. 6pp. 12mo. 11