BIB_ID
425408
Accession number
MA 3498.126
Creator
Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837.
Display Date
Brighton, England, 1832.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1980.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18.3 x 11.2 cm
Notes
The letter is undated. The inventory of the collection suggests the year of writing was 1832. The place of writing from contents of the letter.
Provenance
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1980.
Summary
Discussing Lady Downshire's wish to have Minney's child named Augustus after her son who had recently died or Montague which is a name in her family in Ireland; asking Minney to write to Lady Downshire; relating details of her schedule to be in London for a few days and then return to Brighton where she expects the work on her house to be complete; relating her recent ill health and adding "I am so glad the wedding went off so well - I would have given any thing to have seen dear little Min brides maid - I hear your Boy is the finest child ever seen."
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