Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    L30/15/54/128
  • Title
    From 2nd Baron Grantham, Madrid to Fritz (Frederick) [no.18]:
  • Date free text
    30 Mar 1779
  • Production date
    From: 1779 To: 1779
  • Scope and Content
    This letter being sent by safe conveyance. Update and thanks for letters received. Told Don M.[?] Ottomendi that he [Grantham] will stand Godfather to Escarano’s books etc.. Wishes Fritz’s Westminster Dinner had been fuller. Odd that Mr. Parker had never dined at Weddell’s. Glad Hurdis grows reasonable. Doesn’t wonder at the “great Ponderacion with which the Party speaks of Fox as they are actually blinded.” Promise of a sight of the little girl’s picture. Bishop of Landaff/Llandaff’s (Shute Barrington) Bill highly wanting. Sure Carmarthen is hollow. Glad there will be no trouble about Belmonte’s Sword. Grantham’s Puppet show...? Suspects M. B__s [Madame Bejar’s] scheme to visit her brother at Lisbon is in order to get his consent to her going to Paris with D. of J. [?] to make her last push for Salm. Has written to General Carpenter. Agostin has returned. Martin writes Fritz look wonderful but see little of him as he mixes in the beau monde. Happy he is in good spirits etc.. Enquiring about a ship to Exeter to transport the Murillos to Saltram. Will also hasten the frames. Glad Fritz approves of the semi oval tables. Masin to execute Grantham’s Commissions at Paris. Fritz’s account of extravagances in London is curious. Glad Fritz’s friend Milbanke settled. Prophesied correctly about the Pelham’s views of Lady Compton. The Pantheon must be very handsome. The Greenwich Hospital business looks like a Mare’s nest. Glad Eden distinguished himself. Will make enquiries for him about the Management of Negro Slaves as requested. Confirmation of Nanny’s well being in her letter. Remembers dancing with Lady Surrey at Carlisle’s. “He threatens to be as great a Sott as his father”. Fritz’s account of the Bishop’s? Is truly pleasant. Diego remembers Blue and Red Cloth being shipped on board at San Francisco, short fat man being Captain. Enquiring further. Commission for a set of Dressing Plate of Plated Silver from Bolton’s. Kearney has nothing like it in his sample book. The Corregidora had patterns from England and suggested Bolton etc... Price should be under the fashionable price for silver. Cannot say who it is for.
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