Letter from Sir Harry Fetherston, Uppark, to Maria Fitzherbert, 1819? : autograph manuscript signed.

Saying it always gives him pleasure to fulfill her wishes "...even on any trifling occasion like the present, of shewing my regard to one for whom I feel the most sincere one. I was delighted to hear so good an account of your health from the Duke of Bedford during his séjour at Brighton. I received also your kind letter some time since which I should have acknowledged, but for a reason which no one has ever had less occasion to offer; that of being very unwell from a violent cold and a considerable degree of fever. I am now quite well again; all the better indeed for what has past. It is no wonder to take cold in such a season : I never recollect so damp & gloomy a month of December and of January, as far as it has gone. Not one day yet have I been able to shoot myself since the 10th of the former month, as I consider [illegible] to be an essential article. Brighton is a much dryer situation than this; I hope therefore, you have escaped colds & that I shall have the pleasure to hear that you are quite well & in force to enjoy the gratification of pleasing others, as you are going to do with all the agrements you so well know how to administer."