The life and letters of George William Frederick, fourth earl of Clarendon, K.G., G.C.B.

  • Maxwell, Herbert, Sir, 1845-1937.
Date:
1913
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Credit: The life and letters of George William Frederick, fourth earl of Clarendon, K.G., G.C.B. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material is part of the Elmer Belt Florence Nightingale collection. The original may be consulted at University of California Libraries.

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    Gunning,^ and young Trefusis again, and one quadrille with Charles. Was not that capital for her ? and she really danc'd beautifully. . . . Old Betty Palk ^ told me she was enchanted with Ehzabeth's marriage. She had been so miserable the last two years, and so had he, and now they were so very happy it was dehghtful. EUzabeth and Horace Sejonour were sitting together upstairs all the evening. . . . BeUnda's ball was crowded beyond all crowds—no never ! but your sister kept out of it very tolerably. The Dukes of WeUington and [illegible] were there, as also the Dukes of Cumberland and Gloucester. . . . The Duke of Cumberland told me the Duke of Kent's marriage was declared ! What becomes of all his fine sentimentaUty to me about Mrs. St. Laurent. 12th.—... At first the dancing did not prosper much. The Regent came early, made a great circle, and nobody began for an age. Royalties alwaj^s spoil balls. He gave me one of his tender squeezes, and afterwards, finding himself next me, spoke to me again and joked about renewing his acquaintance with the Honble. Anne, who he had never seen since my father's days, but the brute beast never took any notice of Therese, which made me very irate indeed. He was talking and winking in his blackguard way with Horace Seymour and Miss Palk, and after- wards settled himself for the evening between his two beau (or rather belle) pots, Lady Hertford and Lady Hampden. After he went, the dancing prosper'd much more. . . . Lady Grantham in a Russian dress transcendently handsome ; Ld. Grantham as Hamlet—very handsome. Lady Essex as Rubens's wife— superb, and really had done it well. One set of quadrille dresses only—2 Lady Molyneuxs,^ Lady G. Bingham,* and Miss Coup- maher—Lord Moljaieux,^ Lord Arthur Hill (the Hottentot Man) ^ and 2 other men I did not know, as Croatians—very splendid. Lord Yarmouth as Henry vni. in black—no never ! black whiskers and mustachos ! Raikes ' as a black Hamlet in ditto. When I first stumbled upon him I really made one of Hj'-de's iclats de rire so shamefuUy I was obhged to beg his pardon. . . . ^ Succeeded in 1823 as third baronet. * Lady Elizabeth Palk, wife of Sir Laurence Palk, second baronet. Her daughter Elizabeth married Sir Horace Seymour, M.P., L'lth May 1818. ' Daughters of the second Earl of Sefton. * Youngest daughter of second Earl of Lucan. * Succeeded as third Earl of Sefton in 1838. » Second son of third Marquess of Downshire : succeeded his mother in 1836 as Lord Sandys. ' Thomas Raikes (1777-1848) the diarist, who was also a great dandy.