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
Dear Sister,--I am desired by Lady Yarmouth to assure you of the
sense she has of your good offices, which she was so good to
accompany with the most obliging expression of regard for you, and
with many wishes for your health. I shall be happy to receive a
favourable account of your situation, and which I flatter myself is
every day mending, and that by a Progression which will soon enable
you to take air and exercise. I am just going to Hayes, for some
hours recess, that I want much.
I am ever Dear Sister Most affly Yrs
W. PITT.
_Saturday morning._
_St. James's Square Tuesday Nov. 14._
Dear Madam,--If I had not for some time past found great
inconvenience from writing I shou'd not have continued so long
Silent where I always find so much pleasure in expressing my
sentiments, but however great my indisposition is from _my
Situation_ to my present employment, I cou'd not refuse a commission
which I had the honour to be charged with today from my Lady
Yarmouth, as I am sure the Subject of it will be a great pleasure
and Satisfaction to you. It was to desire I wou'd return you a
thousand Thanks for your letters, and to assure you that she felt
herself most extremely obliged to you for them, and for the trouble
you had given yourself, with many other expressions of the manner in
which she was sensible of your goodness in what you had done, and
how very agreable it was to Her. I was very sorry to find by your
account of yourself to Mr Pitt that you had had another return of
your bilious Complaint, but we Comfort our selves with the hope of
its having produced the same salutary effects the Last did. We shall
be impatient to have a confirmation of its having had so desirable a
consequence. By Miss Mary's Last Letters both to her Brother and Me
we have flattered ourselves with the pleasure of seeing Her for some
days past, but as yet she has not appeared, which wou'd make us
uneasy but that we conclude if her purpose of Leaving Bath the time
she mention'd had been alter'd from any disagreable Circumstance she
wou'd have apprised us of it. Our Nephew, Mr. Thos. Pitt, desires to
have the permission and pleasure of conveying this to you, as he
intends setting out for the Bath tomorrow in order to wait upon Sir
Richard Lyttelton, whom I wish he may find better than by the
reports which prevail, I fear he has any Chance of Doing. Your
Brother continues as usual overwhelm'd with business, and not
entirely free from some Notices of the Gout, but which yet I flatter
myself will not increase to a fit. He begs his affectionate
Compliments to you, and I that you wou'd forgive both the shortness
and the faults of this Letter, and believe me equally however
exprest
Your very affectionate Sister and Obedient Servant
HES: PITT.
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