Letter from Maria Fitzherbert, place not specified, to Mary Georgiana Dawson-Damer, 1826 March 28 : autograph manuscript signed with initials.

Discussing preparations for her return to London and for her period of confinement; saying she has "...prepared every thing for your accommodation & reception in my Home I could not bear the idea of your going to a [illegible] Home when you had neither Servants or any thing comfortable about you & here we shall all be at your command I have put up a bed for you in the large drawing Room & another for Col. D. in your sitting Room & make your bed Room the nursery - you are to consider yourselves as living at the hotel Bristol & he entirely independent - I hope dearest this arrangement will be what you like;" relating advice from Dr. Herbert who suggests that she "...go as little upon the Pavement as possible as that does more mischief to young ladies in yr situation than travelling hundreds of miles upon good Roads he also recommends that you will choose a quiet calm day for passing the Sea that the motion may not make you ill - - I have also order'd every thing necessary for your confinement the Baby Linen is much better & prettier here than at Paris but I recommend you to get Mme. Egremont to make you some sort of Bed Gowns to sit up in as they will be better shone at Paris than here & whilst you are ordering your things pray make her add two muslin morning caps for me which is all the Commissions I have to give you...I shall think these weeks I shall be so impatient for your arrival here the last six or seven months appears to me like a dream;" adding "I have a thousand things to say to you & anecdotes to tell you but I shall reserve them all till I see you - Mary has made a great mistake respecting the King he certainly was delighted for your letter & the Duke who I saw this morning is determined to hear all particulars & tells me He never mention'd a word about being inform'd respecting yr present Situation, but He certainly knows it as most probably Dr. H. Halford told him to whom I spoke to upon the Subject;" relating news of Frederick who "...is dreadfully out of Spirits & nothing can induce him to see any one I told him when you arriv'd we would storm his Castle but I really dont know what will be done or how he employs his time for he neither reads or occupies himself about any thing & the children are not of an age either to interest him or amuse him."