Letter

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 133 HAM/1/17/89
  • Dates of Creation
      31 Jan 1787
  • Physical Description
      1 piece; 1 sheet. Condition: the sheet has been damaged and torn by the seal.

Scope and Content

Letter from Lady Catherine Herries to John Dickenson, concerning Mary Hamilton.

Herries writes of the pleasure she feels in reading the letters sent by Dickenson informing her of Hamilton's continuing good health. She congratulates them once more on the 'happy even which completes the facility of two of the most amiable & excellent of human beings'. Herries continues her letter on the subject of Dickenson's love for his wife and of her wish that she could be with Hamilton. The letter ends with Herries writing on the health of John Dickenson and on the benefits of Herries's 'remedy of Bath water'.

Dated at St James's Street, [London].