��[Lady Strafford.]
St. James's Square, /««^ 3, 1735.
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I was at Kingsington a Sunday, there was a good deal of company, and the Queen very civill. I hired a marc and Lucy and I went in your machine chariote. Lady Anne carred Lady Gallway and Mrs. Candish in her coach, but we went and cam togethere. Lord Bathurst cam here the othere morning and told me I might know the viset was to my self, for he knew you was out of town. He cam between one and two and stay'd till past three. He has a most extrordinary fancy for a conveyance at Cirencester that outdoes your con- trivances, but I am sure I wou'd not goe in it ; he designs to buy the bottom of an old barge that holds twelve people, and to put it upon the carredg of a waggon, and so to have it drawn about with six horses, and a table in the middle. I find he sees Lady Suffolk often
��[Lord Bathurst.]
Cirencester, Azigusf 11, 1735. My Dear Lord,
Your Lordship's letter follow'd me down here, and I had the Pleasure of receiving it the day after I arriv'd. I cannot easily tell you the great satisfaction it gave me, to find my self in your thoughts, to find that you and all your family are now in good health, and as appear'd by your letter full of spirits and chearfull ; I receiv'd only one mortification from it, that I can have no hopes this year of enjoying your good company in that agreable place. As I am but just got hither your Lordship may easily imagine that I have a great many things to doe, the summer will be over before I have lookt round me. I unfortunately engag'd in an affair of selling one Estate and buying another just as the Parliament
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