Letter from Maria Fitzherbert, Cheltenham, to Mary Georgiana Emma Seymour, 1822 September 8 : autograph manuscript signed with initials.

Saying how grateful she was to have received her letter and to know she is with her sister in Dresden; saying "I have not been very well since I came here but I am getting better I am determined to give the waters a fair Tryal nothing but that could induce me to stay here - Mrs. Seymour has been very kind to me in giving me information about you & George he is a much more punctual correspondent than you are my dear Minny for till I got yr letter yesterday I never heard a word about you since you left Spa tho' you promis'd to write to me from Frankfort;" relating her "rage" at the loss of her footman who left to take a job with the Duke of Newcastle; adding "I am sorry to tell you my poor friend Lady Perth died last week & I think my other old friend L'y de Clifford will soon follow her as she is very ill - I have had a delightful letter from your D'r Fred [her brother Frederick Seymour]. I hear L'd Londonderry's death will be a loss for him - This place is so dull & so few people that I know that you must not expect much gossip or news from me for I know nothing nor have I had a line from y'r friend Harriet since I came here;" adding, in a postscript, more news of social events and friends.