Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    L30/11/122/1
  • Title
    Typed transcript. Sent from London:
  • Date free text
    1 Sep 1761
  • Production date
    From: 1761 To: 1761
  • Scope and Content
    The wind is very perverse and the town very disagreeable and everybody in it grows very cross and very impatient. I who have been but 2 days in it begin already to be out of humour, for the Princess cannot come and I cannot return to you. Consult the weathercock, and till that points East you need not expect us. I am sorry, my dear children, I shall not see you tomorrow, but so it is, and you must let them know in the house we do not come. When we do, you will know by somebody coming down the night before and they must keep in readiness. At present the wind is directly contrary, but we live in hopes of more favourable gales, and few wish it more than I do, as I am very impatient to get back to you. I have regretted these fine evenings in town. The train to my gown is not yet come home to walk in procession to the chapel the night of the King's marriage, where there will be such a crowd that Mouse would soon have been lost in it had she come as she wished. Tell her I shall want her very much for my page to assist me in carrying the train to the coronation robe which I tried on this morning and is very long indeed. Saturday evening we stopt at Highgate at Mr Yorke's in our way; house very pleasant; Master Yorke grown, not at all shy, talks a great deal; tell Mouse, with the help of a little kitten he has got and some bowls I think they might be very good friends. Sunday we dined in Grosvenor Square where grandpapa and grandmama are both very well. Monday they and we all dined at Mr Yorke's. This evening (Tuesday) I shall meet her at Lambeth. If the wind won't change we hall believe go and visit Richmond. Hope you remember the care of the garden etc. You will see the new boat fixed, and may have the first use of it, but I desire you won't stick in the middle of the canal with it, and take care it is not an enchanted boat, and don't be as long getting to shore in it as this poor Princess of Mecklinburg is in her fine gilded yacht. (no good print of her). If the painter should have finished the Chinese seat before we come down, tell him to set about the closets in the pavillion, and he may begin first with the yellow paper, which he knows should not be made deeper than a straw colour. If I still should not return before that is finished he must go on to the other closet and make that of one of these patterns of blue (instead of red), whichever shade will look best with the prints. (Martheille to write next post and say how they do.)
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