To LADY BROWNE, Ca Monday 1 October 1781 to LADY BROWNE
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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 Twickenham 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 London, 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 Orleans House. 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. .