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L30/12/9/24
Title
Letter from Thomas Bland [to Alexander Hume-Campbell, 1st Baron Hume of Berwick]. Sent from Colchester. Writer has suffered another painful attack of gout though is back on his feet and proposes returning to Berkhamsted either the week before or the week after Whit Sunday.
Date free text
26 Apr 1780
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From: 1780 To: 1780
Scope and Content
Mention that the Lord Chancellor had been impolite by not answering his Lordship’s letter about the Rectory of Twinsted. The writer hears that the living is even more trifling than he had thought. Does not think it has yet been given, as has heard no word, and not seen it in the newspapers. Comments regarding politics and an arch patriot of the area named Sir Robert Smyth, though he gains not a single adherent of the least note in the neighbourhood. Daughter Charlotte Smyth and husband thank his Lordship for his offer to be godfather to their first-born son; the writer hopes sons and daughters will not come too fast.
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