Add MS 89036/2/2

Letter numbering continues from Add MS 89036/2/1.

• 30. No date. [Lady Stanhope] to [Adams]. 'I am very much obliged to you for your account of Mr. Pitt's health.'
• 31. No date. [Lady Stanhope] to [Adams]. An excited letter. 'Am I lucky? The delightful Duke ([obscure] I mean) is coming down here to look at his Rgt. & the kind Apollo has also an intention to visit Dover Castle, to improve his ideas upon fortification. Mr P. declares it is all a plan of mine....'
• 32. 'Sunday' (no date), Lady Stanhope to [Adams]. Refers to Lord Carrington. Asks if Pitt likes his villa at Putney.
• 33. 'Tuesday' (no date), [Lady Stanhope] to [Adams].
• 34. 'Sunday' (no date), Lady Stanhope to Adams.
• 35. 'Sunday' (no date), [Lady Stanhope] to [Adams]. 'I must write one line to tell you that the beautiful Star Venus has said a thousand flattering kind thing[s] of you & your family, & has made very particular enquiries after your little son.'
• 36. Downing Street, 'Saturday' (no date), Lady Stanhope to [Adams].
• 37. No date, [Lady Stanhope] to Adams. 'You wd not write to me because you have bad news to tell me, how is the beautiful Star Venus, will she not break his heart.'
• 38-38(i). 'Tuesday' (no date), Lady Stanhope to [Adams]. 'You have misunderstood me[,] it is not yr Star but mine whose eclipse I feared, on his account. I meant she wd break her heart ... I cannot bear, or ever shall bear as I ought to do, parting with friends.'
• 39. 'Friday' (no date), Lady Stanhope to [Adams]. Asks Adams to send enclosed note (not present) to 'Captain [Richard] Dunne of the Acasta[,] Plymouth Sound.'
• 40. 'Tuesday night' (no date), Lady Stanhope to Adams. Referring to servant, John Long.
• 41. Walmer Castle, 'Thursday the 14th', Lady Stanhope to [Adams]. Refers to Lady Harrington who wishes someone 'to be promoted in the Excise'.
• 42. 'Thursday night' (no date), [Lady Stanhope] to [Adams].
• 43. 'Sunday night' (no date), Lady Stanhope to Adams. Refers to Capt. Scott's request to go to the Jamaica Station.
• 44. No date, Lady Stanhope to Adams. Unwell, but hopes to see him on Saturday.
• 45. 'Saturday evening' (no date), Lady Stanhope to Adams (at St. James's Place). 'I have spoken to the Duke of R. about you, he said if it sd ever be in his power to serve you he will not neglect it.'
• 46. Montagu Square, 'Wednesday' (no date), Lady Stanhope to Adams (at Queen Street, Westminster). ' I have been so stupidly low of late at losing dear James that I have put off the pleasure of seeing you at dinner.' Ends with a remark about servant Griffiths: 'Is it true that that rascal Griffiths has been made one of the King's Pages?'
• 47. Montagu Square, 'Monday night' (no date), Lady Stanhope to Adams (at Queen Street, Westminster). Invitation to dine.
• 48. 'Tuesday' (no date), Lady Stanhope to Adams (at Queen Street). 'I recd. yr note yesterday & shall write to James to pay most particular attention to poor Capt. D [?Capt. Dunne]. No situation can be more unhappy than that which you describe his to be.'
• 49. 'Thursday evening' (no date), Lady Stanhope to Adams. Invitation to dine.
• 50. 'Tuesday' (no date), Lady Stanhope to Adams.
• 51. 'Thursday' (no date - after Pitt's death), Lady Stanhope to Adams.
• 52. 'Tuesday' (no date), Lady Stanhope to Adams. 'How could you doubt for one moment that I was scarcely interested in your well being....' Refers to 'the Duke of R'.
• 53. 'Thursday evening' (no date), Lady Stanhope to Adams (at St. James's Place). Invitation to dinner. 'I have been but very indifferent lately, the recollection of last year has weighed heavy upon my heart....'
• 54. 'Tuesday night' (no date), Lady Stanhope to Adams (at St. James's Place). Dinner invitation. 'I believe I shall have an opportunity of sending a parcel to James next week. They say the ship sails on saturday, if the wind is fair, but I hope it will be later that I may send him an account of the debate on friday.'
• 55. 'Friday night [?]Oct. 28', Lady Stanhope to Adams. 'I am now at [?]Lansleys a most beautiful Hamlet upon the Wye not far from that magnificent ruin Tintern Abbey.'
• 56. 'Thursday night' (no date), Lady Stanhope to Adams.
• 57. 'Saturday evening' (no date), Lady Stanhope to Adams (at Queen Street). Dinner invitation.
• 58. No date, [Lady Stanhope] to Adams. 'My two dear brothers are both well....'
• 59. Montagu Square, 'Friday evening' (no date), Lady Stanhope to Adams (at St. James's Place). Refers to carpets and curtains for the 'lower rooms' in Downing Street.
• 60. Downing Street, 'Tuesday' [1805], Lady Stanhope to Adams. 'I hope in God that Mr. P. health & strength will improve.'
• 61. Downing Street, 'Monday' [1805], Lady Stanhope to Adams.
• 62-62(i). Walmer Castle, 'Thursday', April 1805, Lady Stanhope to Adams.