Hon'ed Madm,--I have ye pleasure to repeat my assurances of affection & duty to you, together with my wishes for yr health: I shall take all opportunities for paying my respects to you, I hope you will now and then favr me wth a line or two, especially since you have so good a Scribe as Miss Ann to ease you of ye trouble of writing yrself. My Ld Villiers begs his Compliments may be acceptable to you, at ye same time I should not do my Ld justice if I omitted saying something in his just praise, but as I can not say enough, I forbear to say more. My Love to my Sistrs & Compliments where due. I am with all respt Your dutiful Son WM. PITT. The next seems to denote a reluctant intention of returning to England to pay his family a visit. WILLIAM PITT TO HIS MOTHER. _Utrecht Febry ye 13th 1728._ Hon'ed Madm,--I hope I need not assure you yr letter gave me a very sensible pleasure in informing me of yr better health; I wish I may any way be able to contribute toward farther establishment of it by obeying a Command which tallies so well with my own Inclinations though at ye same time be assured, nothing less than ye pleasure of seeing you should prevail upon me to repeat so much sickness & difficulty as I met with Coming over to Holland. I believe I shall not fail in my respects to you, as often as occasion permits, though I fear my letters are hardly worth postage: unless to one who I flatter myself believes me to be hr most Dutifull Son WM. PITT. P.S. my Love to all ye Family. The next letter again pleads on behalf of my Lord Villiers, for whose excess of vivacity William feels obvious sympathy. He mentions, too, and characterises with a sure touch, his old Eton friend Lyttelton, who has fallen in love with Harriot Pitt, as he was afterwards to fall in love with Ann. Lyttelton was apparently determined that the Lytteltons and Pitts should be matrimonially connected as closely as possible, for two months afterwards we find him exclaiming in a letter to his father: 'Would to God Mr. (William) Pitt had a fortune equal to his brother's, that he might make a present of it to my pretty little Molly! But unhappily they have neither of them any portion but an uncommon share of merit, which the world will not think them much the richer for.'[32] As Thomas had just married Christian Lyttelton, it is clear that the writer meditated a triple alliance as the end to be aimed at. The peerage books tell us that this pretty little Molly died unmarried. WILLIAM PITT TO HIS MOTHER, 'IN PALLMALL, LONDON.' _Utrecht Feb: ye 29th_