BIB_ID
425310
Accession number
MA 3498.99
Creator
Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837.
Display Date
Brighton, England, 1831.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1980.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.3 x 11.3 cm
Notes
Written on mourning stationery.
The date and place of writing are not given but it appears to continue a conversation in a letter to Mrs. Dawson-Damer dated February 22, 1831 (MA 3498.97). George FitzClarence was the illegitimate son of William IV and was made the 1st Earl of Munster on June 4, 1831 so this letter would have been written before June 1831.
The date and place of writing are not given but it appears to continue a conversation in a letter to Mrs. Dawson-Damer dated February 22, 1831 (MA 3498.97). George FitzClarence was the illegitimate son of William IV and was made the 1st Earl of Munster on June 4, 1831 so this letter would have been written before June 1831.
Provenance
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1980.
Summary
Thanking him for his letter and commenting "The accounts of the ministers does not surprise me - I never thought it could go on - I am very sorry for it - Lord Grey is very unfortunate & I daresay he must be most dreadfully annoy'd. Nothing could be more kind than the King was with respect to you but all I could do I could not bring him to say what he would do but that I might depend upon him whenever it was in his power - I rather think [illegible] will be made Equerry the first Vacancy but I do not know it for certain indeed every thing is in such a state of Uncertainty that there is no knowing what is to happen - I only wish you had some Situation for life quite independent of every one;" sending her love to Minney and adding "I am very glad to hear from her that the King & George FitzClarence have made up their misunderstanding & I hope now they will continue Friends - I am very sorry about Daykin but if he cannot come down I must send Mrs. Viney for I cannot go on without some person's to attend upon me & she will perhaps be able to find some person that may suit me;" adding, in a postscript, that his sister had a bad week and was confined to her House.
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