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22 Sep 1780

From: 1780 To: 1780

Lord Grantham has gout; not able to accompany in more distant excursions. Mama and Papa; rejoice all their Cambridgeshire bustle so well over; and agree with you that his spirits could not have borne a disappointment, and think it unlucky that he should lately, when most unfit, have had more real perplexity and trouble than during any former part of his life. I expected he would be in a sad pother when the sudden dissolution came... I hope when he has given a few dinners to his neighbours he will go back to Richmond, for their country life is certainly very lonely and dull, and tends to promote Mama's heaviness, which I fear must rather increase than diminish; by her not listening to the proposal about Miss G. [ Obscure reference to some disagreement apparently involving Miss G, Lord P and Mrs Y]. Bedfordshire opposition. [NB. visit from Anthony Storer en route to London from election at Morpeth; long acquaintance Robinson at Cambridge; written to Wimpole "where do not you think Mama will stare and Papa call "Who! who! is it? what! what!].

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Grantham,
Storer, Anthony Morris,
Robinson

gout, Morpeth, Cambridge, elections