BIB_ID
425027
Accession number
MA 3498.30
Creator
Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837.
Display Date
Chatsworth House, England, 1825 October 17.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1980.
Description
1 item (4 pages, with address) ; 23.0 x 18.6 cm
Notes
Address panel with fragments of a seal and postmarks to "Madame George Lionel Dawson / Soins de Messrs Webb & Co / Banquiers / Genes / Genova."
Miss Seymour married George Dawson-Damer on August 20, 1825.
Miss Seymour married George Dawson-Damer on August 20, 1825.
Provenance
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1980.
Summary
Relating news of the Duke [of Devonshire] and her visit to Chatsworth; saying "nothing can be so kind as he has been to us we often talk of you & he has had letters from L'y Granville full of yr praises & seem'd very much pleas'd at yr having bought so many french hats & he is so occupied with ladies dresses & says you dress remarkably well & that at one of this party's you desir'd him to admire a gown you had on, which he said was certainly very pretty but that it was an old one he had seen you in before - he expects every body to be dress'd here as if going to a Ball & looks rather shy if you have not a fresh gown every day which is rather a bore to me who hates the trouble of dressing & in this particular I am afraid I do not stand high in his estimation - I meant to have gone away five days ago but I caught a Violent Cold which has confind me two days to my bed but I am so much better that I intend going tomorrow to Mr. Fitzherberts & to Trentham for a day or two and as the weather is getting cold I shall make no more visits but return the end of the month to Tilney Street; adding that she will begin counting the days until her return and saying "I constantly pray to God to spare my life that I may be bless'd with the Sight of you & that I may see you settled some where or other in a house of your own as happy & as comfortable as you deserve and as I wish you - I am getting into the dismals therefore I shall say no more upon this subject...The Hollands have play'd the same trick with the Granthams they did with me some years ago at Cheltenham, they having taken possession of the premier at Meurice Hotel which was promis'd to the Granthams & Lady H. says nothing shall make her give them up in consequence of this the Granthams are returned to the Isle of Whight till they can hear of something that will suit them - that woman is a sad plague to every body;" adding more news of social engagements and invitations.
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