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Samuel Whitbread II, Paris, to Elizabeth Grey. Marked No 6

28 May 1787

From: 1787 To: 1787

My dear Bessy I have received my Fathers answer to the request I mentioned to you that I had made relative to abridging my stay abroad. altho' it is not exactly what I could have wished, in as much as it insists upon my fulfilling my engagement with the same punctuality that he means to fulfill his: I am far from repining, or being the least out of spirits at the decision, & begin to think that I was extremely unreasonable to wish him to give up any part of the engagement I have made with him, when he will execute his own so punctually, at the appointed time. Be assured that the wish to be with you was the only motive for my thinking of making this request & that that pleasure will be more than equivalent, yes ten times more than equivalent to the pain of this short absence. Nesfield sat off yesterday for London, & carried with him the little box containing the trinket I mentioned to you; they are not the same I had intended to send you. I hope they are prettier, at all events I am confident that the Quarter whence they come will ensure their success where they are going. Nesfield delivers them directed to Tom, & I have written to him desiring he will convey them to you. when you wear them, remember me; Sleeping or Waking you are never one moment absent from my thoughts. I find you always what I left you, I find you the worthy object of my most sincere & unalterable affection. Monson & myself leave Paris on Tuesday Evening after the arrival of the Post. Our immediate route will be to Orleans, Tours, thence across to Caen, round by Cherbourg, Nantes, Kennes, La Rochelle, Rochfort & Bordeaux. this first Tour will take us about a fortnight or perhaps three Weeks; in the course of it you may depend upon hearing more than once from me. Your answer to this I will expect at Bourdeaux: the Banker's name you will find in the list. do not however confine yourself to the ansering my letters, in the Interval of them you should have time & Inclination give me the pleasure of hearing from You. it is a great Joy indeed to me. From Bourdeaux we have almost, tho' not quite, determined not to proceed any father South; the excessive heats we shall experience in July & August, & the distance we shall be from England have weighed with us so much; that I believe our plan is altered & in that case we shall cross France; to Limoges, Moulins, Dijon & Nancy. There will be another resting place for a short time where I shall beg your letters may be directed; but Bourdeaux at present I will give you future information for Nancy. After this our progress is not so well settled. You shall know as soon as it is. Let me know in your next, when the Assizes are, that I may dance with you in Idea: write me a letter from Newcastlwe that I may know who are there & how you are. I envy Punch from my Soul the pleasure he will have. I think my Friends will be sparing of my name in compassion to you but from Nesfield you may collect in conversation how we were & how we went on when he left us.- Write to me. The time will soon pass, & we shall meet. Adieu my dearest Bessy, remember me to all at Fallodon depend upon me who with sincerity subscribes himself Affectionately Your's & only Your's S. Whitbread

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Whitbread, Samuel II,
Grey, Elizabeth,
Whitbread, Samuel I,
Monson, Thomas,
Nesfield, William,
Grey, Charles

Paris, Bordeaux, Fallodon, JEWELLERY, travel