Letter from Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, London, to Maria Fitzherbert, 1804 February 2 : manuscript signed.

Discussing the health of the Prince [George IV] and the King [George III]; thanking her for her letter and saying "...I had not had a moment's ease since I heard of Sir Walter having been sent for. Pray say everything that is most kind from me to the dear Prince, and tell him I thought he would be better pleased, if I did not teaze him with a letter at present. I wrote early this morning to Blumfield upon the subject of the K --'s health up to last night. I have since that seen him, and I think he was not quite so tranquil as I was led to expect he would be from his appearance yesterday Evening, but still the hurry is not such as would create alarm to any but those who witnessed the approach of his former illness, and I do not conceive it is at all increased since my letter of Monday, at the same time it is not diminished. I shall write tomorrow, should any change arise, otherwise it will of course be understood that all remains as it is now. I shall long for your letter of tomorrow, and indeed not alone for I can assure you the Queen and all my sisters as well as that good fellow Adolphus have shewn the greatest anxiety about the dear Prince, since it was known that Sir Walter had been sent for. I am just got in here, but there never was any thing like the scramble in which we are. I hope in another week, we shall feel better settled."