Letter from Lord Munster, Brighton, to Mary Georgiana Dawson-Damer, 1837 August 28 : autograph manuscript signed.

Saying "I am as melancholy as a Sick Cat (as Shakespeare would say) having been thro the old House... [Mrs. Fitzherbert's house]; adding "I had no idea the whole House & Furniture would be so exactly as your left it - What Scenes did not every object recall to my recollection of Thirty years ago, to the last moment you quitted it! The Dressing Room, with most of the [illegible] Ink Profiles still there - but a little white bed in the corner of her Bed Room - that sad Room - on entering the Drawing room I expected to see you on the sofa...as you saw it the last time - and I could scarce gulp my feelings when fortunately, Lady Geo's sharp voice was heard denouncing the House - as 'far from her Friends' and from her 'finding Society for him' and ending (as Lord W. was sitting in the room between the little Drawing Room & the Dressing room ) - by telling the poor Blind old Man, that if He could see - he would see nothing, but a Brick wall...She, in short, likes being at the Hotel & Wiltshire & myself withdrew to avoid the Family squabble & on my part to, to be rid of a description by no means in concordance with my feelings I had been wrought into by old & perfect recollections- I stood in the Dining room & remembered it - as your old dining room with much [illegible] -recollected it as our theatre - and again as hung with Black on the late sad occasion - and the little room where I used to dine 5 days out of 7 - from 1811-1812 - and you used to come to desert;" saying he will try to learn what Lord Westmorland decides but believes that this house is the only one that would really suit his needs; reporting that the agent has let the house to Dr. Holland for the month at 12 Guineas a week and the following month to Lord Westmorland for 15 Guineas a week - and His Lordship wishes to take it on, for the next two months; concluding that he thinks he should claim a percentage.