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Letter from Maria Fitzherbert, Brighton, to Mary Georgiana Emma Seymour, 1825 May 5 : autograph manuscript signed with initials.

BIB_ID
424983
Accession number
MA 3498.17
Creator
Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837.
Display Date
Brighton, England, 1825 May 5.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1980.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 22.5 x 18.5 cm
Notes
Date and place of writing from postmarks.
Address panel with seal and postmarks to "Miss Seymour / Mrs. Fitzherberts / Tilney Street / London."
Provenance
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1980.
Summary
Saying how pleased she is to hear she is enjoying her time with family and friends in London; saying she has no news from Brighton and adding that she has sent one of her kitchen maids up to London "...that you may be able to have a dinner whenever you like at home...;" asking her about a carpet color for her bedroom in Brighton; referring to something she read in the paper adding "I hope there is no foundation for it - I feel very much pleas'd at the Confidence you have plac'd in me w'h respect to an absent person...;" concluding that she is having a bad day as her "...Wretched Back is so painful. I can scarcely move in other respects I am tolerably well, but [illegible] constant pain makes me low & nervous."