The letters of Henry Hoare : 1760-1781 / edited by Dudley Dodd.
"The letters, from Henry Hoare to his son-in-law, Lord Bruce, wife and children attest his devotion and generosity towards the family. They contain nuggets about the garden and house at Stourhead and permit glimpses of Henry the banker and businessman in his wranglings with the Sardinian envoy...
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| Language: | English |
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Chippenham :
Wiltshire Record Society,
2018.
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| Series: | Wiltshire Record Society (Series) ;
v. 71. |
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Table of Contents:
- I. Marriage settlement, 1760-1761
- II. The Count de Viry affair, 1760-1762
- III. The treaty of Paris and British politics, 1762-1763
- IV. A faux pas and a hot summer, 1763-1765
- V. Pocket boroughs, 1766-1770
- VI. Paris in the Springtime, letters, 1771-1775
- VII. Educating the Prince of Wales, 1776
- VIII. War again, 1777-1779
- IX. Life but not quite as usual, 1780-1781
- Appendices. Biographies
- Gazetteer.