many thancks for his sarment, which is very much admired by all that has red it, as wel as by
Dear soul, your moste infenet
affectionat mother.
[Lady Strafford.]
St. James's Square, February 20, 17 13.
.... Here is an extrodinary wedding a going to be, Lord Townsend to Dolly Walpole.* I can't tell whethere you know her Carrecter, but she is won Lord Wharton keept. I am for having the Whiggs have all such wives. Lord Cornbery is to be bury'd to night at the Queen's charge in Westminster Abby, . . . The man has not yet begun your othcre print, nor can I get him to set the day. I hear the Duchess of Shrewsbery is mightily liked in France. I am told by every body that Lord Dartmouth will very soon be declared of the Post Office, and Sir Thomas Hanmore to be Secretary of State.
[Peter Wentworth.]
February 24, 1713. Dear Brother,
.... We are making great preparations for a peace, 'tis reported that last Thursday every thing was sign'd here, and 'tis sent over into France to be signed by the King of France. There's fireworks making which is to be in St. James Square, and the Anthem for the Thanksgiven is to be rehearsed this week at Whitehall, and now they say the Queen will certainly goe to the House next Tuesday. When my Lord Bullinbrook recommended his brother to be Secretary to the Embassy 'tis said he told her that this employment wou'd be a charge to him, for his father never wou'd be at any charge for any son, and her Majesty paid nobody ; but 'twas all in hopes of better.
- In July this year, Lord Townshend married Dorothy, sister of Sir
Robert Walpole.
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