Letter from Maria Fitzherbert, London, to Mary Georgiana Dawson-Damer, 1831 September 3 : autograph manuscript signed with initials.

Expressing concern for her travels "...in a strange Country" and her shock at learning of the death of her young lawyer and his wife in the sinking of the Rothsay Steamer; referring to a Breakfast and Ball hosted by a Duke who "...was in higher force than ever I saw him - a remarkable good dinner Illuminations fire works & the house & garden beautifully light up - about nine oclock dancing began & I felt rather tir'd & came away - there was dinner for fifteen hundred & the scene altogether very gay;" saying she scolded Lady Georgina for not writing to Minney; relating social news of friends; saying Mary is well again "...& I daresay will not be confin'd till the time she expects...I w'd give any thing poor dear Lou was well married I dont see the least chance of it perhaps it is all for the best - I wish I was at any old Chateau for I am tired to death at being here tho' I could not go & leave poor Mary till she gets over her Confinement;" relating more social news; reporting, in a postscript, on the deaths of two friends and saying "Munster is laid up with another attack of gout at Brighton with Lord Egremont which prevents his coming to Town - I am invited to dine at the Palace tomorrow - I hear there is not a little disturbance respecting the coronation - the K. goes at about ten oclock - I shall wait for his return in the Evening to see the Procession for I cannot get up at eight oclock in the morning."