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Sent from Wrest:

2 Aug 1774

From: 1774 To: 1774

Chit-chat. We begin to be jealous for fear the kennel should have more powerful attractions than the garden, for besides the Sunday parties it is to be honoured by a visit from a noble Duke, the Duke of Roxburgh, on a visit to Lord Ossory; and Lady Ossory informed Mrs Cox, who was there on the public day, that they intended it a visit. We have returned the Southill visit and never saw a house in such condition in our lives, so dirty and trollopy, the chairs and tables dancing the hayds, dirty towels in my Lord's room, and some cups as if somebody had been blooded in my lady's, the cushions in the drawingroom on the settees looked as if the whole family had been at romps; indeed the Lord and Lady in dishabille in their rooms but said they had been out all day.

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Roxburgh,
Ossory,
Cox,
Hume-Campbell, Amabel, 1st Countess de Grey, 5th Baroness Lucas,
Yorke, Mary Jemima (Baroness Grantham)

CORRESPONDENCE, kennels, gardens, Wrest Park, SOUTHILL, Southill Estate