L30/14/109/44

Grantham, St. Ildefonso to Draper [unsigned, copy or draft] Re J. Johnson, sent back to England for his own welfare, Draper and Dr. Porteus instructed to find him a suitable position in a respectable family. Until one is found he is to occupy a room at Whitehall, and to have £20 (not all at once). "The fact is simply this: some bad persons, taking advantage of his youth, attacked and shook to the greatest degree his principles with regard to religion". Grantham does not specify what has happened, but instructs Draper only to reveal the reason for Johnson's return home under promise of secrecy. [See also L 30/14/315/4 and 27, and L 30/17/2 and 4]. Grantham says, "He has served me very well in all particulars" but adds "though he had little or nothing to do". Johnson is "very sober, very honest, as I judge from his have no Expenses or Debts, and has as I believe a very good natured and ingenious disposition, has had a good education and writes well". "He came to me in livery, but I could not think of keeping him on that footing, so I advanced him in the family".

c1775

From: 1764 To: 1784

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Lucas,
Grantham, Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron,
Draper, Nathan,
Johnson, J.,
Porteus

family correspondence, travel, employment, wages/conditions, Christianity, general education, liveries, Spain, England, Westminster Whitehall