Translations:CP 03189/5/en
I have just this moment received your letter but as I am having a lot of pain in my eyes I shall provisionally limit myself to a very incomplete reply. If the three young men (not all that young, rather I myself, alas, am very old - and in any case considerably their elder) are the ones I think they are, I won’t hide from you that for a long time, long before my financial losses, I had advised one of them to place his money with you[1]. But here’s the difficulty, which doesn’t make the plan impossible but very awkward. You know that Israel is often at the source of the fortunes and that that is most often forgotten about. But if d’Albufera is due to inherit a considerable fortune from his parents[2] [3] the most evident of what he currently has comes from his wife, the daughter of Princesse d’Essling[4], that is to say the grand-daughter of Mme Furtado Heine[5]. But that fortune is deposited with the Heine Bank and I don’t even know if the testamentary arrangements won’t make it very difficult to withdraw; I vaguely remember that a similar obstacle came up when d’Albufera wanted to deposit some money in Brussels with M. Lambert.
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