Lord Chatham, His Early Life and ConnectionsRosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of
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Lord Chatham, His Early Life and Connections
Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
I am very sorry I can't answer all your Questions this Post, but to
begin with that I can answer the Frame Maker's Name is Bellamy, he
lives in Rupert Street: as to the Guernsey wine, it is a commission
of so secret a Nature, and must be treated with such art and
circumspection, (according to the instructions I am honour'd with)
That I must desire further time to get the lights necessary to the
full discovery of so dark an affair. I have been able to penetrate
no farther than that my Ld Cobham and his Butler are the only
Persons at the bottom of the secret, The one I can't ask he being
abroad; the other I must not, being ty'd up by my orders: there
remains therefore nothing To be done, but to wait the return of the
Butler, or larger Power to treat with my Ld in Person. but to talk
no longer like a Minister, but an humble Servant of my lady
Suffolk's, I desire my compliments to Her, and I'l be sure to send
an answer about the wine next Post. I please myself with thinking
you are free from Head-ach, both as they are very bad things; and
because they are ye effect with you of other uneasiness: be well
and happy, is the only advice you want; and the only means by which
I can be so:
I am most affecly yrs
W. PITT.
_Stowe. Sept. ye 19: 1735._
If you happen to write to me once in a week or fortnight I am never
to hear the last of it; but pray admire the exact diligence of my
correspondence: I don't only answer your letter the first Post, but
I continue answering It two or three Posts successively: I am now
only at the second, and you shall see you are not above half
answer'd yet: but to tell you all I can, the Man Mr Hardy, who
sells my Ld Cobham the Wine in Question, is now in Guernsey; the
Buttler will write to his correspondent to know when he is like to
return, which he supposes must be soon--all which my Lady Suffolk
shall be informed of: I expect a clear distinct answer from you to
each letter of the volumes I have lately writ to you.
Adieu.
The following letter alludes in all probability to his brother, and also
to that Richard Grenville who was afterwards so notorious as Lord
Temple. It seems strange when one recalls Temple in maturity to read of
him as Dick, with a careless countenance and jolly laugh. But everybody
has been young.
_Stowe. Sept. ye 28: 1735._
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