was not well, & had not accompanied them, therefore she was at home at
the Moment, & poor Mrs Farrer, sister to Mrs Fawkes was actually in
the room. They immediately sent for Mr Wentworth, & you may imagine
the distress in which he left us. Poor Mrs Wentworth had only just
recovered from the shock of her Governess dying after an illness of a
few days.

To turn to a more cheerful subject--as the occupations of this house
interest you, I must describe the present drawing-room trio. Hour
eight; tea ordered; at the top of the table, in a great chair, Anne,
reading the Roman history. At the bottom, Marianne with two folios,
making extracts from Palladio on Architecture. My occupation speaks
for itself. I greatly doubt whether a busier scene could be found at
Oxford at the same hour.

Miss Baker [7] mentions that Yarborough has been ill at Cambridge &
wishes to know whether it arises from their intense studying that the
young men at the Universities are so frequently indisposed.


_Mrs Stanhope to John Spencer-Stanhope._
GROVE, _January 26th, 1807._

We are now returning to town, your father arrived there last Thursday.
The waggon with our goods was overturned twice in going from Cannon
Hall to Wakefield....

This day se'nnight we left home, & called at Woolley, but Mrs
Wentworth was not well enough to see us. Thence we waded through the
worst possible road to Hensworth where we found Sir Francis (Wood)