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

Thanking her for a gift and saying "I have worn them ever since & think them quite perfect - what a sly person you were to have conceal'd the Glass, which I tormented every body about for a length of time & was quite undone not being able to find it. Old Sally says she does not mind all the trouble she had to look for it as it was such a pretty thought & attention of Mrs. Dawson;" relating gossip of an encounter with Lord Belfast and later his wife Harriet while she [Mrs. Fitzherbert] was walking with Lady Keith; adding "Mary is perfectly well out in the air all day & this morning went into the Warm Bath whatever little degree of Infection there ever was is gone away But it is quite ridiculous the fears & apprehensions of some of the foolish people upon this Subject Harriet tells me you are dreadfully thin and that you eat nothing but Starve yourself I was very sorry to hear it for tho' I know your passion for growing thin depend upon it it is not becoming to you & every body I see is of the same opinion."