Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    L30/15/54/204
  • Title
    From 2nd Baron Grantham, Whitehall to Fritz (Frederick), Kirby:
  • Date free text
    10 Sep 1783
  • Production date
    From: 1783 To: 1783
  • Scope and Content
    Received his from Weddel's. Sending this one to Kirby. Bad weather [in Yorkshire] worried about Newby accounts of the last westerly wind. Garden wall seems to have made good progress. Grantham's children well. Tom's purging not quite over. Clarifies financial position, badly explained previously. Has in Cash; [£]160, at Boldero [£]800, Board of Trade [£]420, First Qr.[£]500. Using [£]600 to pay Belwood, [£]600 to pay Plumer, [£]600 to go on with. Lady Grantham, Wages and Currency to Midsummer. All paid. Story of Mrs. Walpole untrue, they are gone to Paris with Miss Dee. Their Aunt has written to Lady Lindsay to see what can be done. Sir John has already taken two [letters?]. Called at Duhernorsaie [?] to see progress of his print, will be good. At Nolleken's saw fine bush of Lord Rockingham, mask taken off his face. Same method for poor Lady [Fanny] Middleton. Tom [Pelham] and Lord Midleton sent for him the day she died. Sad sight etc.. Drawing Room tomorrow. Going to see Lady Yorke. The boys go to Kensington on Friday. Took a long walk with James [Worsley?]. The Colonel Thomas killed is not the Duke of Queensberry's friend. House of Lords with Lord Mansfield. Didn't look 60 until be removed wig to robe. Lord Thurlow going to Geneva. Gibbon to Lausanne, he is well again with Charles Fox. Turtles coming over in shoals. James et al dining on it at Wimbledon. Grantham's Great Dinner in the news presumably arose from his giving Turtle. Sloane's wife has died of gall stones. Mrs. Wray sitting with Lady Grantham enabling Grantham to conclude letter. Eclipse of the Moon imminent.
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