L30/15/26/2

From James Harris, Calais [en route to Berlin] to Frederick Robinson, Spain:

22 Jan 1772

From: 1772 To: 1772

Congratulations on his appointment. Private joke concerning Madame V___y [Viny]. Intended route to Berlin. Feelings about task to come etc.. Thoughts on marriage and the type of woman he wants. Parliament met day he left Town; Duke of Beaufort and Lord Pembroke were to be movers in the Lords. Lord Hinchingbrooke and Rony Vane[?] in the Commons. The Birthday was crowded and almost as brilliant as a Gala y besamanos. "Divinely handsome" women there, the most to his taste was Miss Jennings "a person so free from defect and she has eyes to equal. I dined that day in my new department with all the North at Lord Suffolk’s - frigidas tremor occupat ashes". Has an immense house at Berlin but his dinner will not be full until Christmas. Has been ruined by hurry and bad ceremony etc.. Letter is a motley composition, deranged by sea sickness. Letter to Grantham by same post, also Grimaldi (his ). Forgot to mention to Grantham that if the present should be forthcoming, send it to his Agent Mr. Serle at Lord Hillsborough's office. Walpole has foolishly made a pair of diamond buckles of his, Harris's "shall certainly be better employ'd than about my own pretty person".

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Somerset, Henry (5th Duke of Beaufort),
Pembroke,
Hinchingbrooke,
Vane,
Jennings,
Suffolk,
Grimaldi,
Serle,
Hillsborough,
Walpole,
Harris, James,
Robinson, Frederick

ambassador, personal correspondence, Spain, Berlin