{"id":11775,"date":"2021-11-12T21:59:03","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T21:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/szechenyilevelezes.abtk.hu\/uncategorized\/elisabeth-proctor\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T18:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T18:47:10","slug":"elisabeth-proctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/szechenyilevelezes.abtk.hu\/en\/youth\/elisabeth-proctor\/","title":{"rendered":"Elisabeth Proctor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Madame\u2014<a href=\"#_edn1\">[a]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Comment pouvez vous croire, que j\u2019aurais pu \u00eatre fach\u00e9 contre vous comme je n\u2019ai jamais eu le courage d\u2019esp\u00e9rer a cet grand bonheur d\u2019\u00eatre aim\u00e9 par vous. &#8211; Non certainment: je suis trop heureux si vous permettez, comme vous l\u2019avez fait jusqu\u2018\u00e1 pr\u00e9sent, que je vous admire, que je vous adore &#8211; Mon d\u00e9part peut-etre, qui pourra bien s\u2019acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer de quelques semaines apr\u00e9s les Lettres que j\u2019ai eu hier de chez moi, etoit la cause, que je ne possedois pas ass\u00e9z indiff\u00e9rement, pour vous cacher mon secret, qui enfin, parceque vous avez<a href=\"#_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> <em><u>d\u00e9sirez<\/u><\/em><a href=\"#_ftn2\">[2]<\/a> ainsi, ne l\u2019est plus &#8211; et qui \u00e9toit cependant, vous conviendrez, d&#8217;un genre peut amusent pour moi et pour vous \u2014\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mon portrait<a href=\"#_edn2\">[b]<\/a> Madame sera trop heureux d&#8217;etre admis dans vous souvenirs \u2013 tout \u00e1 vous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Sz<a href=\"#_ftn3\">[3]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a> One word deleted by Sz\u00e9chenyi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a> Inserted afterwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref3\">[3]<\/a> Sz\u00e9ch\u00e9nyi<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref1\">[a]<\/a> Sz\u00e9chenyi met Elisabeth Proctor on 13 December 1814, at the Italian Foreign Minister, Duke Gallo (Mario Mastrizzi marchese del Gallo, 1753\u20131833). She and her husband were presented at the court shortly before. Sz\u00e9chenyi spent the next few days in the lady\u2019s company and recorded their correspondence in his diary: SzIN 1. 66\u201373. Elisabeth Proctor\u2019s letters to Istv\u00e1n Sz\u00e9chenyi in December 1814. MNL OL P 626\u20131.\u20131814.\u2013No.14\u201323.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref2\">[b]<\/a> It is the portrait that Mrs. Proctor had asked him for in memory, in her previous letter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recommended reference: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Istv\u00e1n Sz\u00e9chenyi to Elisabeth Proctor, Naples, 18 December 1814. Edited and annotated by Szilvia Czinege. Published in Correspondence of Istv\u00e1n Sz\u00e9chenyi. Digital edition. Edited by Szilvia Czinege and Zolt\u00e1n F\u00f3nagy. https:\/\/szechenyilevelezes.abtk.hu\/ Abbreviation for further references: SzIL-Digit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How could Madame believe that Sz\u00e9chenyi could be angry with her, because he could not hope that she really loved him. 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