Letter from Maria Fitzherbert, Buxton, to Mary Georgiana Dawson-Damer, 1825 September 10 : autograph manuscript signed with initials.

Thanking her for her letter, saying she is happy she is thinking about her finances but adding "...so unlike you to think of any thing of the kind but I am glad you have a little purse of reserve and that you start free of debts - I hope you will not be tempted to spend your money at Paris or make any long stay there;" saying "The Duke of Devonshire came over to visit me a few days ago & wanted me very much to go to Chatsworth immediately as he was going on the 13th to Doncaster Races but not being very well besides being engaged to go to Hooton, I excused myself, but he insisted upon my going to make him a visit on his return which would be on the 24th & which I have agreed to do - I hope you have to do...I had a letter yesterday from the Duke of Y[ork] just as he was setting out for Brighton I dont think he knew you were in Town or he would have call'd upon you - You have no Idea of the talk of this place of his being shut up in an absolute alehouse upon the moors with the party he visited & the extraordinary things that occurr'd some very laughable & amusing but as I really have a very sincere regard & affection for the Duke I feel very sorry & hurt at all the absurdities & ridicule their conduct has occasion'd - I hear they are all to meet at L'd Hertford's;" expressing her hope that she will sail from Southampton in good weather; saying she is "...dead sick of this place it is so damp & disagreeable & I shall be delighted to leave it. I have never been well one day since I have been here...I feel very jealous of you with regard to poor old Forster I always thought I was a great favorite but I fear you have superseded me He is an excellent person I have a very sincere regard for him I forgot w't I wrote in the postscript that he shew'd the King - I know from the D. of Y. I am in high favor w'h his [Majesty I dont] know for what?"