A short but interesting letter written by Guizot from Pelham Crescent where he lived in exile following the 1848 revolution in France. Guizot, who served Louis Philippe as Foreign Minister and Prime Minister, asks the unnamed recipient to pass some pages to ‘Mistriss Austin’, promising that the remainder will be sent soon. This is no doubt a reference to the writer and translator Sarah Austin (1793-1867) who befriended Guizot after her move to Paris in 1843, and who translated his On the causes of the success of the English Revolution and De la démocratie en France, published as Democracy in France by John Murray the year after this letter. As the translations came out so soon after the original French, and as Guizot was a friend and correspondent of Austin, it is not unlikely that the pages in question could have been early drafts of Guizot’s thoughts on the question of democracy, which lies at the core of both works.