Letter from Maria Tunno, Runnymede, to Charlotte Sarah Raikes, 1821 November 29 : autograph manuscript signed.

Postscript at top of page entreating Charlotte to write to her when she can spare an hour. Letter describing their struggle to once again own a settled home, and their decision to work with an agent to attempt to purchase Mr. Bruce's Taplow Lodge; describing how her mother offered 7000 pounds for the whole place, furniture included, and how she has been assured by a person who knows the place that this is more than enough money, though Mr. Bruce's agent is talking about 9000 pounds; asking Charlotte to ask her father, Mr. Raikes, what he thinks about their proceedings; noting that they have been dealing with coughs and colds due to the abysmal weather, but they are now recovering; feeling anxiety about how Charlotte and her family are doing; expressing a longing to be with Charlotte and the family, but still feeling too "stupid" to think about "sallying forth" and visiting people, though assuing Charlotte that her health is "tolerably good"; reasurring Charlotte that she is in her thoughts constantly, and though her faculties are numb, she feels this is "the intended decree of Providence"; musing that just as a Physician starves a patient while administering medicine for his ultimate benefit, "the moral fast may not be less salutary to the mind diseased"; remaking that Mary Anne Coombe, who they consider part of the family, has been staying with them while Edward is "playing truant" at Cambridge; noting that they bought a poodle, and hopes they will not be thrown out as "bad tenants of Wentworth"; asking to be remembered affectionately to Mr. Raikes and their whole party; noting that Augusta is "saucily complaining" about the English climate because she has spent time in an Italian sun, but that those who are experienced a Parisian winter cannot complain.