L30/17/4/89

From 2nd Baron Grantham, St. Ildefonso to Anne [Nanny] Robinson:

26 Sep 1774

From: 1774 To: 1774

Received hers with it's new date from Hendon Place where she passes some agreeable days. Hopes she is with Therese by now. Dined once at Fitzroy's which was very pretty but quite in it's infancy. Duchess of Leinster's strange match thought to be true. Account in papers. Lockhart wrote recently. Doesn't know what to think of Nanny's account of him. Assumes alarm over as Mr. Aislabie didn't mention it. Long drought caused Grantham's servants to be ill. Rain started now. John Johnson, Fritz's man. His story for Nanny. Returned to England with letters of recommendation for Draper and Dr. Porteus. Delicate subject, not mentioned until Johnson gone [see also L30/17/4/97 & 105 and L30/14/315/4 & 27]. Baron Giusti's Chariot on road from Bilbao, doesn't know if it contains anything for them. Escurial on 6th or 7th.

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Leinster,
Lockhart,
Johnson, John,
Draper,
Porteus,
Robinson, Thomas (2nd Baron Grantham),
Robinson, Annie

drought, weather, rain, servants, illness, Spain