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Letter from Anne Florence Robinson, Wrest Park, to Amabel, Countess de Grey. [Typed transcript available]. Thanks for beautiful psalm books sent to the writer and Mary.

Sunday No date. [1831]

From: 1831 To: 1831

Papa and Mama’s colds are mending. Have enquired about the peafowl. There is one ready and more coming forward; have desired Gee to write to Brown with particulars. The shelves are ordered for the anti-library and there will be room for as many books as Lady de Grey likes to send. The first edition of St. Simon is here, but not the last, which is a good book for a library. Has not sent any memoirs except [Louis Antoine Fauvelet de] Bourrienne. Thinks they have published some lately of all the bad women in France. Mention of ‘those naughty plays you are so fond of between the windows, and all the wicked books in the small library opposite the windows which are so bad Mary and I are always obliged to turn our backs to them when we pass through the room.’ Asks whether Swift wrote Gulliver as a satire on any individual people and measures or only generally, and if Lady de Grey knows what all the Lilliputians, etc. alluded to. All busily employed in manufacturing pulpit cloth, reading desk and communion table covering for the church. The cloth embroidered 1684 is too small now that the pulpit has been enlarged. Gives further details.

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Robinson, Anne Florence,
de Grey, Amabel, 1st Countess,
Robinson, Mary Gertrude,
Swift, Jonathan

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