Letter from Mary Georgiana Seymour, Cork, to Maria Fitzherbert, 1831 October : autograph manuscript signed with initials.

Reporting on how much she is enjoying Ireland, discussing politics and the Reform Bill; saying "I do not know what George had said in his letter to you but I suppose it was something very civil. He seems so pleased at my liking Ireland which I must say I do not think very meritorious as we have been passing very agreable lives with fine weather & pretty Country & her people I think very amusing, & besides this I can conceive nothing half so disagreable as either London or Dorsetshire would have been this year. In the former every body sick of each other's face & in the latter I am so grateful we were not mixed up in an Election which has run so high and in which George would have had more chance of being beat than Mr. Ponsonby who I think however will win at last - I thought Lord Ashley was much too clever to have made such stupid vulgar speeches & his first Address was so good - as long as there is no confusion I cannot care about the Bill being thrown out, it is impossible Lord Grey can stay in and there are no many who would be so much better out of the way than I should not wonder much if Lord Wharncliffe finished by being Minister & much as I like the man I think his manner would be more overbearing & harsh than almost any one's but I think you must have enough of the Bill without my opinion;" saying what a lovely time they have had at Killarney and how she wished she was "...not so afraid of the sea for I am sure you would be delighted with Killarney and altogether amused by Ireland which seems to me now the quiet part of the world;" asking about family and relating more social news of Ireland and mutual friends.