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54 To the Hon. Henry Seymour Conway [1774

P.S. Pontdeyvelde is dead, and our friend * fancies she
19 more sorry than she fancied she should be: but it will
make a vacuum in her room rather than in her entertain-
ment.

Arlington Street, Sept. 29.

This letter, which should have gone two days ago, but
I had no direction, will come untimely, for you will be up
to the ears in your canvass², as the Parliament is to be
dissolved the day after to-morrow.

•'1563* To THE HON. HENRY SEYMOUR CONWAY.

Strawberry Hill, Sept. 27, 1774.

I SHOULD be very ungrateful indeed if I thought of
complaining of you, who are goodness itself to me: and
when I did not receive letters from you, I concluded it
happened from your eccentric positions. I am amazed
that, hurried as you have been, and your eyes and thoughts
crowded with objects, you have been able to find time to,
write me so many and such long letters, over and above all
those to Lady Ailesbury, your daughter¹, brother, and other
friends. Even Lord Straiford brags of your frequent
remembrance. That your superabundance of royal beams
would dazzle you, I never suspected. Even I enjoy for
you the distinctions you have received—though I should
hate such things for myself, as they are particularly
troublesome to me, and I am particularly awkward under
them, and as J abhor the King of Prussia, and, if I passed

i Madame du Deffand, wno on inutile de se plaindre, il faut savoir

Sept. 4,1774, wrote to Horace Wai- supporter toutes les situations ou

pole on Pontdeveyle's death as fol- Ton se trouve, et se dire que Ton

kwfls—-*Je fais une tres-grande pourrait §tre encore plus inaltieu-

perte; une oonnaissance de cin- reux.'

quante-einq. ana, qui 6tait devenue ² GrauFurd was elected for Ben-

une liaison intime, est irreparable. frewshire on Oct. 24,1774.

Qu'est-ce quo sont celles que Ton LBTTEE 1563.—* Hon. Mrs. Damer.
forme a mon age? Mais il est