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Letter from Maria Fitzherbert, Brighton, to Mary Georgiana Dawson-Damer, 1830 May 4 : autograph manuscript signed with initials.

BIB_ID
425243
Accession number
MA 3498.83
Creator
Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837.
Display Date
Brighton, England, 1830 May 4.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1980.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.3 x 18.3 cm
Notes
Date and place of writing from postmark.
Address panel with fragments of a seal and postmarks to "Hon'ble / Mrs. Dawson Damer / 40 / Upper Grosvenor Street / London."
Provenance
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1980.
Summary
Relating news of Brighton and referring to the King; saying "...I am better here than in Town for a few days longer - the weather is fine & I am tempted to enjoy it besides which the constant history's respecting the K. & people's curiosity to find out what I think & what I do w'd annoy me so much that dull as it is here I am spar'd many Uncomfortable occurrences that would annoy me in Town;" expressing her continuing concern for Daykin; adding "I have nothing to tell you from this place excepting that all the people here will insist upon it the K. is in the act of dying of a dropsey - I trust to his good Constitution he will recover tho' perhaps it may be some time - I cannot think he is in the state of Danger he is by many represented to be."