Reference
HG12/5/25
Title
to Theresa Higgins, Turvey Abbey from sister, Elizabeth Longuet, Bath
Date free text
9 feb 1807
Production date
From: 1807 To: 1807
Scope and Content
Maria says writer's nephew, Charles, is very beautiful. Caroline has gone to meet the Orlebar's at a ball, writer did not go as "I am so sick of them" Mrs Jackson and her mother hope to meet them there. Mrs Fenwick goes with Miss Davis, a Welsh heiress, "the gayest of the gay" Also mentions Mr. Fortune and family and Mr. Pointer, "the oddest quiz I ever met with about forty so good humoured and drol that you cannot fail of being merry when he is of the party" Mr. Fortune says he is anxious for a wife and "wants Caroline to make a dead set at him". He is a friend of Lincoln, "three thousand a Year and a beautiful house in the Country what can be better!!" Writer thinks he is paying attentions to Welsh heiress. Discusses dress. Is reading the Quixotes but not a style writer likes.
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