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Samuel Whitbread II, Cherbourg, to Elizabeth Grey. Marked no 8.

5 June 1787

From: 1787 To: 1787

My dear Bessy Rather than expose myself to your censured indignation for breach of promise; I will venture to send you a few Words, dull & uninteresting as they may be in every respect, except by the information that they will give you that I & my Companion are both well. We brought our Carriage on to Caen, & sent it thence to Kennes in Bretany where we mean to rejoin it either tomorrow or the day after. We rode from Caen yesterday about seventy miles in as hot a Sun as I ever experienced. it has not however tired or sickened Us, so that I hope we shall do now very well. the Morning we have employed in viewing the Works, which are going on, with great vigour. & as soon as we have dined shall depart, hoping to get six or seven Posts on our way tonight.- Why this great hurry? you will naturally exclaim. & I think I shall not account for it unpleasantly to you, by telling you that I expect to have some letters from you at Bourdeaux, & that I am impatient beyond measure till I arrive there.- Thank God my letter is dated in the Month of June & that a fifth part of the time is elapsed. long eno' the Month has been but never mind the other four must go & then all will be well. You see by the beginning of my letter I forget, & forgive what I was so angry with in my former letter. do not serve me so again. my best remembrances to all at Fallodon. Je suis tout a Vous, so depend upon me & believe me my dearest Bessy that I am & shall ever remain most sincerely & affectly Your's & only Your's, S. Whitbread do not be angry at a scrawl like this from Nantes

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Whitbread, Samuel II,
Grey, Elizabeth,
Monson, Thomas

Cherbourg, Caen, Fallodon, travel