Letter from Maria Fitzherbert, London, to Mary Georgiana Dawson-Damer, 1831 August 21 : autograph manuscript signed with initials.

Saying she has just returned from a pleasant time at Tunbridge and commenting on politics; saying "...it is the opinion that Ministers cannot go on, Lord Milton decidedly turn'd against them & several others who are bor'd to death with the Business - Tallyrand [sic] & Montron [sic] appear much more active than any of our people. Tallyrand is certainly the cleverest person in existence he is aware of the people he has to deal with & does whatever he likes - the common people say he goes every night at twelve o'clock into the Regents Park for a private conversation with the Devil...have you read the account of another Steam Vessel having been lost near Beaumarais - promise me my dearest Minney that you will not return either yourself George or your children by any other than the regular way from Dublin to Holyhead - the number of people that have lost their lives is quite shocking to think of;" adding that she is sending this letter under cover to the Duke of Leinster and "I think he must feel very uncomfortable at that old good for nothing man Ogilvie publishing poor Lord Edward's History - he was a most amiable person & I had a great regard for him & his memoirs are very affecting."