Volume the Second: Diplomatic DisplayLondonBritish Library, Add. MS. 59874
here, since there is not a creature in the Housewhom I have any wish to please. –. I have justhad a conversation with my Brother in whichhe has greatly offended me, and which as Ihave nothing more entertaining to send youI will give you the particulars of. You mustknow that I have for these 4 or 5 Days paststrongly suspected William of entertaining apartiality for my eldest Daughter. I own indeedthat had I been inclined to fall in love withany woman, I should not have made choice ofMatilda Lesley for the object of my paſsion; fortheres1 is nothing I hate so much as a tall
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