Letter from George Dawson-Damer, London, to Lady Caroline Damer, 1825 July 11 : autograph manuscript signed.

Asking for her financial support in order that he might marry Miss Seymour; saying "I have been for many years attached to Miss Seymour and have had some reason to hope that the attachment was reciprocal, altho' conscious that I was not a match her Family could view as eligible in a worthy light - I cannot deny the fact that the narrowness of my income certainly occasioned my incurring debts, but Feelings of honor & of pride made me embrace with eagerness the opportunity Lord Bathurst's Friendship gave me of trying to clear myself; and that I might render myself less objectionable to Miss Seymour Family I resolved on encountering the risk of an unwholesome Climate to which I recently fell a Victim last year. The reception I have met with on my return from Miss Seymour tends to confirm my former hopes of her partiality, but I remain in the mortifying predicament of bringing no income on my side, as I cannot look forward to resuming my Post in the W. Indies, and Miss Seymours Family do not fail to dwell upon this point - I beg that you will do me the justice to believe in the sincerity with which I assure you that it is not only with reluctance but pain that I venture upon addressing you on this subject being well aware of what you have already done for my Family, especially in a late instance & hating the thoughts of what may seem to encroach upon your good nature : but yet some mark of your protection would be such essential importance, & would put me at once on so different a footing with Miss Seymours Family...but still, I beg you to think that if you judge it proper to decline coming forward, I can never be the less mindful of the former benefits which you have conferred on me."