BIB_ID
425542
Accession number
MA 3498.174
Creator
Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837.
Display Date
London, England, 1835 November 3.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1980.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 15.7 x 9.9 cm
Notes
The letter is simply dated "Monday Morn'g" however in her previous letter (MA 3498.173, dated October 29, 1835, she says she will "...leave Town on Monday" which would date this letter to the morning of November 3rd. Place of writing from contents.
Detached address leaf with seal and postmarks to "Hon'ble / George Dawson Damer M.P. / Came / Dorchester."
Detached address leaf with seal and postmarks to "Hon'ble / George Dawson Damer M.P. / Came / Dorchester."
Provenance
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1980.
Summary
Discussing her travel plans and her wish to see them; saying "I was to have gone out of Town today but the Fog was so horrid I could not see across the Street & being full of Rheumatism I really did not dare go out of my house - poor Lady Pechell coming the other day from Richmond in one of those horrid Fogs was overturn'd in her Carriage & broke her arm & Sir John dreadfully bruis'd - I hope your Gout is better - I have been forc'd to take a good deal of colchicine which has done my aches & pains good;" adding, in a postscript, that she is enclosing a note for Blanche.
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