"I can very sincerely assure you, my dear Mr. Evelyn, that your letter of the 9th was very welcome; and I am as glad as any friend you have in the world that it has pleased God to restore to you your only daughter. May she live to God's glory, and the true comfort of her worthy parents, shall be my hearty prayer.
"You had not heard the news of my Lord Spencer's marriage from any but myself, had not there once been a rub in it; and, when that was got over, the melancholy news I heard of poor Mrs. Draper made it, I thought, improper to trouble you. 'Tis now concluded, and the writings drawn in the lawyers' house, who say they will be ready in a fortnight, by which time the Duchess of Newcastle and her daughter will be in town, and I and Lord Spencer will be there to meet them.[1] I
- ↑ "Whatever," says Lord Sunderland, "may be the King's mind in relation to me, I will ever submit to it. I hope he does not doubt it, and I shall most willingly stay here, not only till after Christmas, but for seven years, if he thinks fit; though I have a great concern at this time, being most extremely anxious to see my son married . . . Endeavouring to marry a son to one's mind is so good a reason for being in town, and shall be so public that I suppose it may satisfy the most extravagant jealousy, but every thing that relates to me ought and shall yield to what the King likes best."-Shrewsbury Correspondence, 594.
