| Title | Letters from Frances FitzHerbert and Sir Henry FitzHerbert to their uncle, William Philp Perrin, including
From Frances, 29 January 1806: "we are just now canvassing all our friends for Lord Palmerston who stands for Cambridge ... All the world are now lamenting Mr. Pitt's death, tho' while he was living they wished him away"
From Frances, 13 February 1806: the doctor has provided valerian for her headaches, "which is very nausious but they certainly are abated"; asks the favour of borrowing his picture of Raphael's holy family to copy
From Frances, 11 October 1806: is much better for a month spent in Harrogate
From Sir Henry, 27 November 1806: reports birth of Selina; hopes his uncle will be godfather
From Sir Henry, 12 May 1807: "Ever since the first appearance of the dissolution of the parliament, I have been almost incessantly engaged in a committee for conducting Lord Palmerston's election for the university of Cambridge ..."
From Fanny, 10 August 1807: "the Fitzs [are] very busy in smartening up the old village; the church is undergoing a sudden repair
From Sir Henry, 2 September 1807: he and Agnes are to visit Blackpool to try to improve Agnes' health; Lord St. Helens is staying with them at Tissington
From Sir Henry, 5 April 1808: reports on his new terrace and on his tree-planting and felling
From Fanny, 7 April 1808: reports the death of Henry Gally Knight
From Sir Henry, 2 June 1808: Lady FitzHerbert has been delivered safely of a boy
From Fanny, 13 June 1808: "we must congratulate one another on our new relation. I hear he has black eyes, a high nose, broad shoulders, and an open chest. Fitz sent me this description when the child has only been in the world four days ..."
From Sir Henry, 16 June 1808: is very pleased to accept his uncle's offer to be godfather to William |