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 Letters of Isabella, Lady Wentworth, to Jier Son, Lord 'R.ABY, at Berlin, 1 705-1 708.


 * February 2, 1705.

My dearest dear childe, I am very sorry you have lost your Queen, for I know you had a very great veneration for her, and I doe very much pety the Poor Princis Sophya, sure her greef must be great, and having soe laitly lost a son to.* I lament that such a yousles creature as I should outliv soe many fyne young folks. Cosin Hanburer sent for Betty and I yesterday to meet Bell and her spous, whear we was all very merry and dranck your health in very good wyne ; we playd at cards, I am groan a great gaimster, but when we meet my cossin is denyed to all other company. She and her husband came this afternoon to see me, and Bell and hers, and Peter and his boy, it being my veseting day, and I take the same freedum you gave me when you was hear in making a great show with your tea tables and dishis ; but you left but one tea-pott, that is, the little blew and white one. The post I fear will be gon if I ad any more then to asure you never mother loved her only child, more then I doe you, that are the best of children to

Your moste infenitt

affectionat Mother

L W.t

a daughter of the Electress of Hanover, and sister therefore of the future George I.
 * The first Queen of Prussia died in January of this year. She was

t In the postscript the writer tells a scandalous story about the Duke of Grafton and a Lady, whose husband had made it up again " with an oth that if ever she is kinde with a tory he never will forgiv her " ; but as the story is contradicted in her next letter it would be unfair to give it at lensTth.

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