Reference
HW87/118
Title
Letter: Richard How II (Aspley) to William Tomlinson. Delighted to hear by letter of 19 July of Tomlinson's recovery.
Date free text
21 Jul 1745
Production date
From: 1745 To: 1745
Scope and Content
Stories told him by Mr. Bonell who came with his wife & Mrs. Bulluck: Pope’s deception of Lord Bolingbroke in printing the History of his Administration. & his miserly opinion of the fortune bequeathed to him by his father. Also 2 ghost stories. "I tother day asking whether the heaths hereabouts had over been plowed as there seem to be furrows, was answer’d That its said the Pope curs’d the Lowlands, which occasion’d the plowing the Hills"
Level of description
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