Condesa de la Cortina

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Gender: F
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Biographical details

R.W. Hardy met her in 1827 in Mexico City: "A more excellent and amiable lady does not exist, and I am bound to acknowledge the many kind civilities which I received at her hands. She is a woman of great talent and wit, although I never knew her to make an ill-natured observation. She has an a excellent house, furnished in good taste and containing a variety of extremely good paintings.” (Hardy, 520)

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1827

She was living in Mexico City in 1827.

References

Hardy, R.W.H., (1829), Travels in the Interior of Mexico in 1825, 1826, 1827, &1828,

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