Letter from Maria Fitzherbert, Cheltenham, to Mary Georgiana Emma Seymour, 1822 August 25 : autograph manuscript signed with initials.

Relating news of friends; saying she has been in Cheltenham for a week to benefit from the waters but adding "Millions of people here but such a group I never beheld, except Lady Willoughby, the Charlemonts and Ravenscrofts there literally is not a human being I ever saw before, mais n'importe;" relating news of Minney's friend Harriet [Butler]; saying "When I left town Lord Glengall and his mother and Belfast were going to Ireland & Harriet going to spend the time of their absence with L'y Riversdale as soon as they return from Ireland, my Lady & Harriet are to go to Paris & Belfast is to follow & they mean to be married there everybody is enraged at this proceeding after all the [illegible] there has been, but L'y G told me in confidence that Harriet must & would go to Paris to get some corsets made w'ch could not be done here that her shape absolutely in every respect depended upon it, What a sad thing I understand it is much worse than is perceptible - she now looks very graciously to L'd B and we all agree that she now likes him extremely indeed he is very deserving;" relating more social news and concluding "I am sure you must have been sadly shock'd at the tragical end of poor L'd Londonderry how I do pity her tho' I hear she bears up most wonderfully."