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From Frederick [Fritz] Robinson, Escurial to 2nd Baron Grantham:

30 Oct 1774 [should be 1775]

From: 1774 To: 1775

Three pretty suits of clothes arrived for Tom Pelham from Paris, he and Waddilove expected in about three weeks. Hopes they were all better satisfied with their pictures than Draper was. Mr. Sandford bringing a letter from Nanny. Will be well received. Mr. Wroxall expected, author of travels through Sweden & Denmark. Hopes he will attack Mr. Twiss if he intends to write on Spain. Latter's ignorance should be exposed. Fritz bored with modern travel writing. Mr. Martin's Quarto an inpenetrable secret. Mr Werthern’s Introduction to Madame de Puente Fueste in Spain. His journal told him he'd known her well in Holland which he'd forgotten. Reference to Grantham being asked if he had been suckled by a goat, questioner assumed to have heard from Madame Masseran that they "had never tetêd" [?]. Lady Pelham wrote of her missing Tom, comforted by him going to Grantham and Fritz. Calls his new niece "Misstake" until he hears her name. Reference in French to making a sottise.

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Pelham, Thomas,
Waddilove,
Wroxall,
Twiss,
Werthern,
Robinson, Frederick,
Robinson, Annie

clothing, travel, goats, Sweden, Denmark, Paris, France, Spain, Holland