This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... not particularly interested about him, nor is he the husband I most wish dead. Yours most sincerely, H. W. The Rev. Doctor Warner to George Selwyn. July 10 1779. Dear Sir: --I wish much to know that you all got safe and well to Matson, and that Mie Mie rejoices to find herself in a place she has ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... not particularly interested about him, nor is he the husband I most wish dead. Yours most sincerely, H. W. The Rev. Doctor Warner to George Selwyn. July 10 1779. Dear Sir: --I wish much to know that you all got safe and well to Matson, and that Mie Mie rejoices to find herself in a place she has before been happy in, and I doubt not will be so for many years to come. No news. You heard, I suppose, before you went, that Sir Charles Hardy 1 had come back to Torbay for reinforcement, and that there was a report of good news from India; also, that a considerable number of French merchantmen had been driven upon their own shore by one of our men-ofwar. I called at the Duke of Queensberry's this morning. He is not come back ffom Newmarket yet. Did you ever see in the whole world anything like the luck of the Burrells? Peter Burrell gets 8,000 by the death of the Duke of Ancaster, and I suppose will soon be a peer and lord great chamberlain. Those who loved Lord Bolingbroke must have grieved, I imagine, more for his frightful illness 1 Admiral Sir Charles Hardy had succeeded Admiral Keppel in the command of the Channel fleet. than his death. I am going to PhD. Crespigny's in Surrey, and running around to pay some very short visits, that I may pay you a long one. Robert Bertie, fourth Duke of Ancaster, whose death is referred to in this letter, died on the 8th of this month, when the barony of Willoughby d'Eresby fell into abeyance between his two sisters, and the lord great chamberlainship (which was hereditary in the family) devolved jointly between them. The eldest sister, Lady Priscilla, had married, on the 23d of February preceding, Peter Burrell, Esq., who was subsequently knighted in order to enable him to execute the office of lord great...
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