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Letter from Maria Fitzherbert, London, to George Dawson-Damer, 1834 December 18 : autograph manuscript signed with initials.

BIB_ID
425536
Accession number
MA 3498.168
Creator
Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837.
Display Date
London, England, 1834 December 18.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1980.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 22.7 x 18.7 cm
Notes
The letter is undated. The inventory of the collection suggests the date of writing as December 1834 and says that this letter was sent with a clipping of Peel's Tamworth Manifesto which was published in London on December 18, 1834. Mrs. Fitzherbert dates the letter "Thursday Morn'g". December 18th was a Thursday in 1834.
Address panel with seal to "Hon'ble / George Dawson Damer / Paris."
Provenance
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1980.
Summary
Sending him "...the enclosed, just publish'd which in my humble opinion is one of the cleverest productions written - I hope you will be as much delighted as every one here is - Lord de Grey has refus'd Ireland & accepted the First Lord of the Admiralty, a situation he has been ambitious of all this life - Lord Aberdeen makes way for him & goes to the Colonies - The Whigs are outraged & call Peel's address all Hypocrisy - all the Ministers dine with the K tomorrow."