| Description | On her stomach complaint; Lady Mary Kerr's 'good Fortune'; the sale of Mrs Hutton's house; the Dowager Duchess of Beaufort; events in France including the beheading of [Joseph Foullon de Doué] and [Louis Bénigne François Berthier de Sauvigny], the Queen ('the poor Unfortunate Princess what a bitter Potion is Hers'), the Comte d'Artois, and Madame de [Polignac], and the attempted seizure of Duke Harcourt's papers; on Brighton and the Duchess of [Beaufort]; the Duchess of Ancaster; 'May I beg not to be named about these French news as the Person who wrote them'; love to the girls
Signed and dated at Weymouth. '174' written in pencil in top left hand corner
This document has been dated as '28 July 1781'. However this would appear to be incorrect |