Daily life, 1733 - 1803

File — Box: 1, Folder: A

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17 letters total:

Bertie Brownlow, 5th Duke of Ancaster (died 1809) to Henry Arundell, 8th baron of Arundell (1740-1808), dated January 28, 1785 from Savile Row, congratulating Arundell on Miss Arundell's engagement
Charles Aynsley (died 1808, written after 1793) to John Davdison, sealed, requesting Davidson to defend his steward's wife
Sir Thomas Bootle, dated December 20, 1733 to lawyer Grey (George of Newcastle), stating that a "nasty old lady won't let her daughter marry"
John Brown (1715-1766) to "Dear Sir" (Newcastle), dated August 25, 1766 in London, regarding Brown's Russian expedition, Northern politics, Lord Chatham abused
M.N. Buckingham to "My dear sir" at Bath and dated Tuesday [December] 13th, regarding letter after drinking and that H. Grenville is a bastard
Basil Cochrane (died 1816), dated February 24, 1797 from London and sealed to "Dear Father" [Archibald Cochrane, 9th early of Dundonald (1749-1831)] regarding bank failure in Newcastle; the Alkaline Business; persuading Mr. Glenny, and family quarrels
Courtenay (piper), dated November 17, 1788 from Wortssopmaner to [George Davidson] sending game and piping
Order to deliver John Courtoy his note for 2000 pounds used in evidence against Mrs. Phipoe [Mary Benson], signed by H.C. Selby and receipted by John Courtoy, dated April 12, 1796 with account of Phipoe trial on verso
George Legge, 3rd earl of Dartmouth (1755-1810), dated September 18, 1800 from Sandill to Louis Dutens (1730-1812) with a servant's recommendation
Baron Thomas Erskine (1750-1823), dated [August 25, 1803] from Portugal Street to "Dear Sharp," "come and see me in Hampstead" [portrait on verso]
A. Hope, dated November 21, 1785, 61 Pall Mall, to "Dear Sir" [Hopetoun?], thanking him for hosting them in Edinburgh
E. Lauderdale, Countess of Maitland [either Elizabeth Ogilvie, wife of 6th earl who died in 1744, or Eleanor Todd (1782-1856) and wife of 8th earl), dated November 3 in Dunbar to her son the Honorable Charles Maitland [either Charles Barclay-Maitland, died 1795, or Charles Fox Maitland, died 1817], sending to school
James Lowther, Earl of Lonsdale (1736-1802), dated July 23, 1798 in London to Wastell regarding slaughtering sheep on Thursday
H.M. Smith, dated May 29, 1792 in Newland Park to "Sir," "You sent too little wine"
C. Lewis Sudon [a German], dated November 15, 1800, Corbach, Waldeck, to Lowes at Storeys Gate Coffee House, Westminster, Great George Street, London, regarding travel between London-Bremen-Hanover; pleasure gardens; anti-English feeling
2 letters from John Staples to Henry Collingwood Selby at Northumberland House, Charing Cross, dated June 14, 1791 from Wellclose Square (sealed) and January 10, 1795, first regarding banquet for J.P.s of Middlesex and second indicating the Commission of the Peace for the Liberty of the Tower of the London about to be read and indicating that he was over 75 years of age [both in tiny writing]