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Letter from Maria Fitzherbert, Brighton, to Mary Georgiana Emma Seymour, 1825 May 9 : autograph manuscript signed with initials.

BIB_ID
424986
Accession number
MA 3498.18
Creator
Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837.
Display Date
Brighton, England, 1825 May 9.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1980.
Description
1 item (2 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
Explaining that she has not written because she knew Louisa would deliver the news, that she has been suffering a great deal from gout and rheumatism but still hopes to get to London on Wednesday; saying it is very quiet in Brighton "...but at present it suits me very well for I am not fit for any thing but laying my whole length upon the Sopha - I trust when this attack is over I shall come out quite a young gay person & able to enjoy my friends again for I have been a sad good for nothing person for some time past - I have nothing to write about to amuse you except that two days ago my old friend Miles stop'd my Carriage to wish me joy of my daughters marriage I did not know what the old Creature meant at last he said he had read in the Papers that you were going to be married to Ld. John Townshend - w'ch you may be sure I desir'd him to contradict as it was current all over Brighton."