The Mary Hamilton Papers : Letter from Lady Catherine Herries (née Foote) to Mary Hamilton

Herries (née Foote), Catherine

The Mary Hamilton Papers

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Letter from Lady Catherine Herries to Mary Hamilton, relating to Lady Herries's pleasure at receiving Hamilton's letter, and to a proposed visit to Hamilton and her husband.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Quoting from Lord Chesterfield's writing to his son, Herries writes in response to Hamilton's letter that 'we have long been past these little doubts, only worthy of little minds'. She has replied to Hamilton's kind letter a thousand times in her heart, if not on paper. Herries mentions a friend from Bath who had recently paid her a visit in Cheltenham, Miss Maltby[?], 'a very amiable young woman', who could be accommodated by dint of Miss Herries [Grace Herries, her sister-in-law and companion] moving to a garret room.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Herries also writes on her health and of visiting Hamilton in August or September for three weeks. Herries is pleased that Hamilton has seen Lady Templeton. She asks 'Is it not most strange & indeed how disquieting' that nothing has been heard from Miss Bowdler. Herries is now worried for her (see HAM/1/17/241).</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Dated at Cheltenham.</p>