BIB_ID
425051
Accession number
MA 3498.37
Creator
Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837.
Display Date
Brighton, England, 1826 September 9.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1980.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 22.5 x 18.8 cm
Notes
Date of writing from postmark. Mrs. Fiztherbert dates it only to "Saturday."
Address panel with seal and postmarks to "Hon'ble / Mrs. George L. Dawson / Sussex Hotel / Tunbridge Wells."
The Duke of York suffered from dropsy from July 1826 and died in London on 5 January 1827.
Address panel with seal and postmarks to "Hon'ble / Mrs. George L. Dawson / Sussex Hotel / Tunbridge Wells."
The Duke of York suffered from dropsy from July 1826 and died in London on 5 January 1827.
Provenance
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1980.
Summary
Expressing her happiness at knowing she is safely at Tunbridge as she worried over their journey in the bad weather; relating social news from Brighton; adding "You dont mention the dear Baby I hope poor little Soul she is going on well I am glad to hear your Eye is better I hope it really is so for I have not much reliance upon what you tell me about yourself as I know you always make the best of it...I have heard this morning about the poor Duke [of York] alas alas his case is deplorable He was to have been here today but he cannot leave Town or his Medical advisers.
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