To LADY BROWNE CA 19 JULY 1781 203 please, you may say, as I really have got more pain in my shoulder by the door of Mrs French's1 room being open upon it last night. [PS.] I had just written this and was going to send; your Ladyship will see that I cannot have the honour of waiting on you this eve­ ning.

To LADY BROWNE, ca Monday 1 October 1781

Printed from the MS now WSL. First printed, Toynbee xv. 440. The MS was owned by Denham and Co. in 1902; owned by J. Pearson and Co., 1905; not further traced until sold by Heffer in March 1940 to WSL, inserted in a MS copy of The Mysterious Mother. Dated conjecturally by HW's handwriting and his letter to Lady Ossory of 7 Oct. 1781 in which he tells how Lady Browne and he were robbed on their way to Park and mentions Lady Margaret Compton as being present. [Strawberry Hill], Monday. AS THE Pococks1 will not be at home this evening, Madam, and X~\ Lady Margaret goes to Twickenham Park, you would like perhaps to go thither too, and I should be too many; I will there­ fore defer waiting on your Ladyship tonight, and go with you to the Pococks or to the Duchess of Montrose tomorrow, which you please, if you are not engaged; but send me word what you choose of all.

To LADY BROWNE, ? October 1781

Extract, printed from Puttick and Simpson's catalogue of autographs, 24 Dec. 1857, lot 34- The MS was sold to Knox; not further traced. It is dated tenta­ tively on the assumption that it was written soon after HW and Lady Browne had been robbed in the highway; see dating note to the preceding letter.

CONCLUDE that your Ladyship will [?not] choose to go to the

I 1 Park tomorrow, as you will not like going thither when I cannot guard you. dlesex, 1810-16, iv. 390-1; James Thome, 1. Katherine Lloyd (d. 1791), m. (ante Handbook to the Environs of , 1743) Jeffrey French (BERRY i. 57 n. 17). 1876, ii. 629-30; GM 1767, xxxvii. 524). In She had a villa at Hampton Court. 1800 it was occupied by Louis-Philippe, then Duc d'Orleans, and his brothers, and 1. Sir George and his sisters (see ante was henceforth known as . 15 Sept. 1780 and post 27 Sept. 1788). 2. A marked departure from his usually inflexible rule of only one a day. 1. Presumably Twickenham Park.