ISBN: 9781130496932

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 132 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.3in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Pur… More...

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 132 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.3in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: . . . quite sure to be in the course of the autumn, I should think you cannot begin to canvass too soon, or too anxiously. No one can have behaved better than our new King, who has expressed his entire confidence in the Duke, and his anxious desire that everything should go as it is. Of course it is a very anxious and busy time, but I hope the Session will be ended as quickly as possible, and when we get a new Parliament we shall get on better, and be stronger. Whenever I hear anything about a Dissolution you shall hear from me. I hoperour canvass will be a successful one. Do let me hear rom you, and tell me how it goes on. The Duke is in very good spirits, and looks very well. I am going to-night to the House of Commons to hear the Kings message. I dined last night at Lord Willoughbys, the only thing I have done since the Kings death. I will write you again soon. Ever yours affly. , H. Arbuthnot. July 2o, 183o. --I am amused by something Fanny has just written to me about the King, 2 and his eccentric behaviour: 1 For particulars of the DuVe of Cumberlands quarrel with Lord Lyndhurst, see Grevilles Journals, vol. i. pp. 223-27 (edition 1875). William IV. 183o GENERALS, ADMIRALS, KEEP STEP! 201 Kate Molyneux1 has just left me. She says that the King went to Windsor yesterday, alone on the Box of the carriage, with the Queen and Princess Augusta inside. She tells me that a few days ago Lord Howe walked over to Bushey from Twickenham, in order to Kiss Hands. The King, finding that Lord Howe intended to return on foot, rang the bell and desired a footman to tell the Queen that he wished her to set Lord Howe down at his own door (during her drive). This was done accordingly. Lord Howe made the fourth inside the carriage, . . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<