Letter from Maria Tunno, London, to Charlotte Susannah Raikes, 1816 December 25 : autograph manuscript signed.

Thanking Charlotte for her kindness; remarking that "Gratitude, certainly does not render one eloquent, but you will I am sure believe, how sincerely I must wish to thank you and yours, for the more than friendly attention I received, during the happy days I spent at Theobalds"; conveying her sister Rosa's affection for Anna; expressing concern for Charlotte Susannah's health and asking her to take better care, stating, "You have no special right to be careless of your health, but indeed no such right exists for those who have kind and affectionate friends interested for them". In a signed note appended at the bottom of page 3, Maria's mother, Margaret Tunno, "begs a corner" and adds to the letter to "to thank you most sincerely for all your kindness to my daughters"; Margaret sends her husband's regards to Mr. Raikes. Postscript from Maria remarking that "Caroline and Augusta beg to be most kindly remembered to Charlotte, and our Caroline" and stating that "My careless child forgot to bring her [clogs?] from Theobald's. Will you have the goodness to allow them to be left at my father's office, when you are sending to Town?"; observing that the days are getting shorter, and the sun sets before four o'clock.