My dearest Little Girl, I imagine you have by now
seen your brother & had an account of every thing at
Cossey. I long impatiently to hear from you as I hope you
received a letter I sent you by the post about the
same time as they set out from London. Papa has had yours
& was much pleased with it. I was ready to cry to see
my poor little girl justifying the expenses & showing she
had not been extravagant. You will I hope have 5 guineas
more at the return of my Mr Arthur. Let me know if that
will suffice. My brother Arthur & his lady have been
here since the 3^d of the month. They stay until Monday next
the 21^st & then we all set out together for Ditchley, take
the road for Newmarket, & then to Cambridge &c I believe
we will stay there a week or ten days & then return by
London where I shall send for tiny that he may see his
uncle. Mde Dillon tells me that she made you a visit but
I’m afraid she tells a story for as you never mentioned it I
can hardly credit her. She is not at all pretty, but good
humour’d & improves upon acquaintance. I believe her to be a very

good sort of person, & she certainly was a great [?match]
for my brother as she has a very large property in
Martinique. She has a girl of ten years old & a boy of [damaged]
by her first Husband they have 50,000 he rests between the [damaged]
& just before they came to England. She lay in at Cambray
(where she had been all the summer with the regiment) of a
little girl who is called Fanny. My brother wants her to
put Mlle de la Touche to the Bleu Nuns I think it would do
well to learn English. Mr Le Texier has been down here
for a week (the man who reads plays so well) it is
impossible to conceave how excellent it is without seeing him
exhibit. I believe he will be at Ditchley also. It was there
I made acquaintance with him last Christmas. My brothers
poor little boy Harry has been very ill but is now recovered
& gone back to Ditchley he had been put to a school near
London but before he had been there a month fell so dreadfully
ill that my brother very wisely has judg’d it better to
keep him at home for the present. He was 8 years old last
month. Your old acquaintance Miss Arundel who married
last year her Cousin My Arundel is brought to bed of a {?son}

she is now past one & twenty Her sister is not yet married.
The Petres are all at Feckenham but the house in
such disorder that I hear they cannot receive
any staying company so that we have not been there.
I see in the newspaper that Lord Petre is steward to
the Sessions assembly tomorrow night so I imagine Miss
Petre will make her appearance there. George will have
told you of a Book we have at Cossey called an album
which means a white book where every body writes
their name & some verses or prose of their own making or
quoted from some author in any
language. One page is filled
by George, William & Ned.
If it would amuse you I would send you some
of the compositions. Your little Uncle is still in London.
Did not George mention a Mr Lemon a Clergyman who
was here with them. He is of Suffolk & has been all about
Italy, Germany & two years ago passed the winter at Paris
where he was very intimate with the Chevalier. He is an agreeable
little man something in the {?Lincoln’s} style but more delicate
the same regiment is yet at Norwich that you left here
so we have not any new acquaintance in that way. …
my little girl an account of every thing adieu my Dearest Charlotte
write to me soon & believe me when I say that I love you most dearly

How do the poor girls do who were in affliction? & which is
now your great Friend? I hope Mde de la Neve & you continue to
be intimate because it will be an agreeable acquaintance for [illeg]
Miss Dillon has behaved very ill to her Mother in Law & most shamefully
neglected her father since her marriage. He is really one of the best
natured men in the world. She cannot speak a word of English.

[change of orientation]
France p^s p^d to London
Madmoiselle
A Mademoiselle Jerningham aux Dames
Ursulines Rue St Jacques
a Paris

My dearest Little Girl, I imagine you have by now
seen your brother & had an account of every thing at
Cossey. I long impatiently to hear from you as I hope you
received a letter I sent you by the post about the
same time as they set out from London. Papa has had yours
& was much pleased with it. I was ready to cry to see
my poor little girl justifying the expenses & showing she
had not been extravagant. You will I hope have 5 guineas
more at the return of my Mr Arthur. Let me know if that
will suffice. My brother Arthur & his lady have been
here since the 3^d of the month. They stay until Monday next
the 21^st & then we all set out together for Ditchley, take
the road for Newmarket, & then to Cambridge &c I believe
we will stay there a week or ten days & then return by
London where I shall send for tiny that he may see his
uncle. Mde Dillon tells me that she made you a visit but
I’m afraid she tells a story for as you never mentioned it I
can hardly credit her. She is not at all pretty, but good
humoured & improves upon acquaintance. I believe her to be a very

good sort of person, & she certainly was a great [?match]
for my brother as she has a very large property in
Martinique. She has a girl of ten years old & a boy of [damaged]
by her first Husband they have 50,000 he rests between the [damaged]
& just before they came to England. She lay in at Cambray
(where she had been all the summer with the regiment) of a
little girl who is called Fanny. My brother wants her to
put Mlle de la Touche to the Bleu Nuns I think it would do
well to learn English. Mr Le Texier has been down here
for a week (the man who reads plays so well) it is
impossible to conceive how excellent it is without seeing him
exhibit. I believe he will be at Ditchley also. It was there
I made acquaintance with him last Christmas. My brothers
poor little boy Harry has been very ill but is now recovered
& gone back to Ditchley he had been put to a school near
London but before he had been there a month fell so dreadfully
ill that my brother very wisely has judged it better to
keep him at home for the present. He was 8 years old last
month. Your old acquaintance Miss Arundel who married
last year her Cousin My Arundel is brought to bed of a {?son}

she is now past one & twenty Her sister is not yet married.
The Petres are all at Feckenham but the house in
such disorder that I hear they cannot receive
any staying company so that we have not been there.
I see in the newspaper that Lord Petre is steward to
the Sessions assembly tomorrow night so I imagine Miss
Petre will make her appearance there. George will have
told you of a Book we have at Cossey called an album
which means a white book where every body writes
their name & some verses or prose of their own making or
quoted from some author in any
language. One page is filled
by George, William & Ned.
If it would amuse you I would send you some
of the compositions. Your little Uncle is still in London.
Did not George mention a Mr Lemon a Clergyman who
was here with them. He is of Suffolk & has been all about
Italy, Germany & two years ago passed the winter at Paris
where he was very intimate with the Chevalier. He is an agreeable
little man something in the {?Lincoln’s} style but more delicate
the same regiment is yet at Norwich that you left here
so we have not any new acquaintance in that way. …
my little girl an account of every thing adieu my Dearest Charlotte
write to me soon & believe me when I say that I love you most dearly

How do the poor girls do who were in affliction? & which is
now your great Friend? I hope Mde de la Neve & you continue to
be intimate because it will be an agreeable acquaintance for [illeg]
Miss Dillon has behaved very ill to her Mother in Law & most shamefully
neglected her father since her marriage. He is really one of the best
natured men in the world. She cannot speak a word of English.

[change of orientation]
France p^s p^d to London
Madmoiselle
A Mademoiselle Jerningham aux Dames
Ursulines Rue St Jacques
a Paris