Queen Stephanie’s Letters – Letter IX

Why don’t I have news at all? I’m heartbroken and worried. The Count of Lavradio telegraphed today to Ostend, and to Düsseldorf, to learn something, but I have not yet received an answer.

Queen Stephanie’s Letters – Letter VIII (From the Queen to her Mother)

Stephanie has finally left Prussia, arriving in Buckingham Palace on the 6th May, after having set sail towards Dover.

1857 – Yellow Fever in Portugal. Part 1

On the 29th September 1857, the government deemed it necessary to create an extraordinary health council to solve the epidemics, and this council performed the “very honourable, and not scarcely difficult commission” which was entrusted to it, as well as taking measures to see if it was possible to prevent a second wave, at least in such a vast scale.

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