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Samuel Whitbread II, London, to Elizabeth Grey. Marked no 25.

17 January 1788

From: 1788 To: 1788

Jany.17.1788 My dear dear Bess, I am just arrived in Town. After my expedition to Bedford, & have to thank You most sincerely for a letter I received upon my arrival. You are a very uncommon personage to be always setting Yourself down as stupid, when You know that are not so, when You know that You are every thing the person who loves You better than the whole World put together wishes you should be. But i have not time to pay you all the compliments You either desire or deserve, for the post is just going out. & I can only say that I am perfectly well & still entertain sanguine hopes of been able to set off for Fallodon on Monday. You shall hear from me again tomorrow, nor should Your Patience have been so long kept cold on a Monument, had I had an instant in which I could have written for these last three days; & be assured of this that it is at least as great pennance to me not to be able to write, as it can be to You not to receive letters. but how shall I put what I have to say in a few Words? - easily. Je vous aime, Je vous adore. Adieu & God bless You my dear dear dearest Bess & believe me now & ever Most sincerely & affectly. Your's & Your's only S.Whitbread Pray give my best love to Hannah & tell that in order to make myself tolerably acceptable After so great a loss as that of her Husband. I have got la Poupee la plus Magnifique, with three suits of Clothes. which I hope She will do me the honour of accepting. best Remembrances. Addio Addio.

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Whitbread, Samuel II,
Grey, Elizabeth,
Grey, Hannah

London, Fallodon, BEDFORD, toys