Folios 166-167. Letter to Mr Beecher at Lord Ailesbury's in Leicester Fields. The...

Folios 166-167. Letter to Mr Beecher at Lord Ailesbury's in Leicester Fields. The writer mentions that he has had no answer to the letters he sent to Mr Lander in one of which he had directed letters or a small parcel to be delivered by either Beecher 'or Dick to Mrs Harman herself, and she to deliver them to one Hannah and the word 74'. He goes on to say that Lady Westmoreland and Lady Pultenay should speak to Lord Shrewsbury. He also says that when Colonel Columbine was a close prisoner he (the writer) 'procured him his friends to come to him' and 'to be debarred a wife and one woman servant was never done. I am ill and want somebody to make things night and morning, and it is unchristian to have nobody to make them. All this should be told to Secretary Trumbull; Lord Sunderland ought to be privately made acquainted with it; no wife was ever yet refused, 'if she stayed Charnock's trial'. The woman can bring in anything that will go in a pocket, for she is not searched; besides in the cakse [sic] may come single papers, and two or three in one'. The letter continues with what seems to be matters relating to his estate and ends 'tell my wife I long to see her and the children'.