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 454 THE WENTWORTH PAPERS.

soon for the country is very dull without your good company pray give my duty to my grand mamma i am dear pappa your,

most affectionate and

most dutiful!

Daughter LUCY WENTWORTH.

��[The Duke of Bedford.*]

WoBURN Abbey, July 7.0^ 1725. My Lord,

It was no small Mortification to me to have been detain'd so much longer in town than I propos'd before I heard of the Honour your Lordship intended me, but when I heard how great Pleasure I have been debarr'd from by my stay it has made the Town and every thing else more dis- agreable. I have hasten'd my Journey and am now at Woburn where I shall be proud of the Honour of your Lordship's Company as soon as it suits with your conveniency. I beg you will bring Mr. Pope with you, or in case he should have left you by this time that you would be so kind as to write to him to meet you there. For I have an earnest Desire to be personally acquainted with that Gentleman whose Works I have so long admirM. I have nothing more to add but that I am, &c.

WoBURN Abbey, August 5, 1725. My Lord,

I hope your Lordship and all your Family got well to Town. I wish you a good Journey into Suffolk and an early return to Town in the Winter, that I may have the Pleasure of your Lordship's company there. I believe I shall be at Days Time. I am sorry the Circumstances of Mr. Pope's

Duchess of Marlborough, and died without issue in 1732.
 * Wriothesley, third duke. He married a granddaughter of the

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