BIB_ID
425339
Accession number
MA 3498.107
Creator
Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837.
Display Date
England, 1831 August?.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1980.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.2 x 11.3 cm
Notes
The letter is undated however Mrs. Fitzherbert mentions she had just directed a letter to her at Dublin two days earlier. A letter dated August 8, 1831 to Minney was sent to her at Dublin (see MA 3498.104). That letter was sent from London but place of writing is not given in this letter.
Provenance
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1980.
Summary
Relating news of Lou's [Louisa Mary Smythe - daughter of Mrs. Fitzherbert's brother Walter Smythe] proposed marriage, expressing her happiness with the match but adding that it still needed to be kept secret until "...this affair being settled to the entire satisfaction & delight of all party's;" adding, in a postscript, "dont mention any thing about Lou till you hear from me again as no creature has been told any thing about it & Lady Fremantle has not told her family we agreed to keep it quiet for a short time."
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