COMPLIMENTARY LETTERS. 



Camden Place, Ciiislehurst, Kent, 

 10 Janvier 1871. 

 Le Commandant Duperre, Aide-de-Camp du Prince Imperial, a 

 1'honneur d'informer M. Meredith que les magnifiques raisins qu'il 

 a eu l'attention d'envoyer a l'lmperatrice, sont parvenus a leur 

 destination. 



Le Commandant Duperre est charge de transmettre a M. Meredith 

 les remerciments de sa Majeste. 



76 Via del Babnino, 1th April. 



Monsignor Stonor presents his compliments to Mr. Joseph Meredith, 

 and begs to inform him that he presented this morning to the Pope 

 the box of grapes, which only arrived yesterday in Koine. 



His Holiness was graciously pleased to accept them ; and requested 

 Mgr. Stonor to write and thank Mr. Meredith for them. 



Although so long on the road, the grapes were in very good 

 condition. 



Cromwell Koad, 14th November. 

 Lady Derby wishes she could sufficiently express to Mr. Meredith 

 her thanks for his great kindness. She received from Mr. Wills, late 

 yesterday, the magnificent present of grapes sent her by Mr. Meredith, 

 and which indeed deserved any prize. Lady Derby returns her 

 warmest thanks for this most beautiful and excellent fruit. She is, 

 however, still more desirous to express how much she is touched by 

 Mr. Meredith's kind remembrance of her, for which she is indeed truly 

 grateful. 



Osborne, 22d January 1869. 



My Dear Sir, — I received the box with the handsome present of 

 grapes you sent me, in very good condition. I must say you adopt an 

 excellent system of packing ; for there was scarcely a berry injured, 

 nor even the bloom displaced, notwithstanding the knocking about 



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