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HERO IOCASTA ARIADNE CORVOSAGGIO VON SCHARFFENSEE
Text of a letter from Helmut Frederich Lambert Ahrent Ritterslandt, Graf von Scharffensee at Scharffensee in Austria, to his daughter-in-law Hero Iocasta Ariadne Corvosaggio von Scharffensee at Chateau Ragoczy near Lake Geneva, Yvoire, Switzerland
Graf von Scharffensee sends his greetings of the season to his daughter-in-law, and hopes that the new year of 1817 will bring her good health and better weather than we have seen this last year
Letwell My son would be proud of their progress, were he still alive to see it You will be pleased to know that Annaun her study of French and is already able to say a great many words correctly Her tutor, Frau Linderlein, has said that by the tiue Bertram and Berend have acquired a second tutor for ed to instruct theh spirits, and claims he can tell them apart, which Herr Gunther Drossler still cannot do, fried has celebrated his eleventh birthday on the 2ndday of this month, as you no doubt recall, and I a hi He, too, is receiving instruction fro, if such can be arranged He saw the 8thHungarian Hussars on parade and is now h he decries the lack of a foe to fight now that Bonaparte is no longer ra about Europe
I will take the children to Vienna at Easter, to purchase their annual wardrobe and to let theance of that splendid city I am not yet prepared to have you join us, and for that reason, I recommend that you not ask that I include you There will be tih when they are a little older for you to becoain, when their characters are fixed and they no longer answer to every turn in the wind For now, it is fitting that they continue with uidance and ender the respect for their father&039;s memory that they will need in later life Rest assured, they are receiving the best care and instruction that I can provide the as you continue to agree not to interfere in reed, are we not, that you have neither the position, the , nor the ability to care for them yourself In any contest of law, the courts must uphold my claim over yours
Should you remarry, as much as I would dislike that to happen, I will, of course, return randchildren to you, provided I am satisfied that your new husband is sufficiently co to care for them in the ement can hardly be deemed appropriate for the co as you and the Co scandal upon my name, I will have to take measures to constrain you, for your children&039;s sake as well as for the preservation of s are, you cannot offer them either education or material opportunities for the future, nor can you establish theht to have provided both, but as we are aware, he did not, and his political alliances have proven to be inadequate to the changing conditions around us The law, in its wisdom, has entrusted his estates and his children to my care I hope to instill a distrust of radical notions in the children so that they will not commit the same order of folly that their father did Fridhold did not expect to die in the full flower of his manhood, but still he did, and his children, withoutto sustain therandchildren, and to their welfare in life At this tireement, and to make every effort to ensure as pleasant a surround for theht years traipsing after Napoleon so that my son could embarrass us all with his enthusiash hardship for the lives You cannot escape the taint of revolutionis as they reularity in all things, and responsible instruction, and the firm and affectionate hand of a man to secure the educations and the futures you and I hter of so faio, you should appreciate the value of learning, especially in these erratic tiular post; I extend ood wishes to you, on this, the Eve of Christmas, 1816,
Your father-in-law,
Helmut Frederich Lambert Arhent Ritterslandt
Graf von Scharffensee