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| CORRESPONDENCE – 1862-1869 |
Born in 1821, Lady Lucie Duff-Gordon contracted tuberculosis in her late thirties. On the advice of her Doctor, she embarked on a first journey to the Cape of Good Hope. With her health deteriorating further, she left her children and husband behind in England and settled in Egypt in 1862, in search of a climate suited to her condition. Letters from Egypt is a compilation of letters sent mainly to her family. It offers a "vivid, life-like descriptions of the people among whom she dwelt, her aspirations for their better destiny, and the complete amalgamation of her own pursuits and interests with theirs. She was a settler, not a traveller among them" wrote her friend, Mrs. Norton, after Lady Duff-Gordon's death in Cairo in 1869.
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