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From Fritz, Stanmer to 2nd Baron Grantham:

7 Jul 1778

From: 1778 To: 1778

Off with Tom and Harry to visit camp on Coxheath, never seen anything of the sort before. Thinks Lord Pelham would be cheered by trip but won't go. Trying to persuade him to go to Saltram in summer too. Small hope. Swimming at Brighthelmstone before breakfast. Likens Grantham to Swifts Mariner when reading on a boiling day in Spain Fritz's account of swim. Quotes "so by a calenture misled, The Mariner with rapture sees..." Mr. Wyndham, next brother to Lord Egremont, badly injured whilst skating. Spinal injury, paralysed, hopes of recovery eventually. Hasn't seen Lord Robert on rides, doesn't enquire as Pelhams may not like it. New Assembly Room built on the Stene [Steyne], also hot baths. Impatience for Lewes races on parts of younger Pelhams. Fritz intends to avoid them and others "until we carry our brides to York". Experiencing one of the finest summers ever known. Mr. Hodges has entirely drunk away his health and memory etc... Fritz has not experienced in England "any inconvenience serious or ludicrous, from the larger quantity of wine that I have of course taken...a few glasses of port is the modicum". [Comments generally on drinking in society ]. Thinks Diego's ship not yet out of river.

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Pelham,
Wyndham,
Egremont,
Robert,
Hodges,
Diego

weather, drinking, alcohol