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Queens Square Place Westmnr
4 3 May 1780
The Proof you have given me, my dear Madam, that I have sometimes a
Place in your Thoughts, by the kind Token of your Remembrance which was
forwarded hither by Mr Crowe was so flattering to me, that I should be
wanting to myself if I did not make you my acknowledgments for so
agreable a mark of your esteem; and it is with the greatest truth that I
asure you, nothing cou'd be more wellcome to me, unless it was (to make
use of an expression of gallantry) to have received it from your own hand
by your accompanying it hither. My Wife is so well satisfied of this,
that I have her commission to tell you, it would have been the most
effectual means you cou'd have taken to have brought the favour house
to herself at the same time Perhaps you are not aware what you have done to me you have made me Purse-proud and that is what
I never thought I shod have been indeed in the other house could I have had any reason to be so, but what can it be that has so much
engaged our good Mrs Henchman this length of time since we were
so happy under her Roof, that she has not been able to find an opportunity
of making us equally so under our own. and is the Capital so barren
of Inducements as to afford no motives in the way of Business, or
Convenience of any kind sufficient to draw our Friend Mr Henchman to it?
even was Queen's Square Place no Part of it — for it would be
mortifying indeed to us to have occasion to think, He has once been
in Town, without coming to us, & taking up his abode with us.
It gave us a sensible concern to understand poor Mr Capper's Relapse
compelled him to take another flight to Bath, as we can easily
imagine nothing but the Necessity of Health, could reconcile him to take
so distant a Journey a second time so soon after the first, and
abandon, as it were, the pleasures of domestic happiness such as
he is blessed with, in Mrs Capper, & the endearing pledges of their mutual
affection, in a situation so desirable that one can easily imagine Nothing
but health was wanting to their wishes — it is our's, you may asure
her, that it may be amply supplied where he is, & that he may carry
back so good a Stock of it, as that he may to have no more occasion
to take such so a distant Journey to fetch it — If he'll be so kind to
call on us, upon his return, we shall be glad to convince him, that
what I have said is not mere Compliment. Rich as Earl Soham
is in agreable neighbours, the Loss of any One more especially such a One must however be
sensibly felt by the Rest.
You were informed by Mrs Bentham's Correspondence, with you,
that we passed the last Summer in Northamptonshire, where we
were five months at a House, my Friend, Sir Francis Basset, was
so obliging to give me the use of called Sunley Park & where our
time was chiefly taken up in attending the Inclosure of an Estate of
my Wife's adjoyning to his in consequence of an Act of Parliament that
passed last Sessions for Inclosing the Common Fields Lands in that Parish.
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