Political and Social Letters of a Lady of the Eighteenth Century

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Excerpt from Political and Social Letters of a Lady of the Eighteenth Century: 1721-1771 Introduction - Family History; Letters I. to XX. - 1721 - 1734; Society at Bristol - Bath - London - Family Affairs - Inoculation - Court at St. James´s - Visit to Kimbolton - Description of Boughton, Drayton - Country Life at Southill; Letters XXI. to XLVII. - 1736 - 1751; London - County Elections - Chicksands - Sir Danvers Osborn´s Marriage with Lady Mary Montagu - Wedding Preparations - Reports of the Pretender´s Invasion - Parliamentary News - Dining at Court - Rebellion of 1745 - Panic in London - Account of a Duel; Admiral Byng - 1757; Condemnation - Letter to him from Voltaire - From Marshal Richlieu - Letters from Mrs. Osborn to the Duke of Bedford - Letter to the Lords of the Admiralty - Admiral Byng´s last Letter to his Sister, Mrs. Osborn - His Justification - Monument to his Memory at Southill; Letters XLVIII. To XCIII. - 1766 - 1733; Mr. Pitt - Lord Halifax - Parliamentary Details - Creation of Lord Chatham - Lord Travistock´s Death - Elections - General Depression - "Spendthrift Election" at Northampton - Duke of York´s Death - Conclusion About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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