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The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1 by Unknown
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expected she will be brought back to-night. They can do nothing but
get her married to the man at Church. She is 18, he 30, and no
Gentleman. She was advertised and 20 guineas reward offered to anyone
who could give an account of the stray sheep. It is a sad History.
What misery this idle girl has caused her parents, and probably
ensured her own for life.


_Marianne Stanhope to John Spencer Stanhope._
_March 3rd._

You have doubtless read in the papers the account of Miss Petre's
elopement with her brother's tutor, Mr Philips. He is a very low man,
quite another class, always dined with the children, never associated
the least with the family, a sort of upper servant. Lady Petre thought
him rather forward, he was to have left them at Easter. She had seen
her daughter at twelve the night before, and only missed her at
breakfast. Her clothes were all gone. A friend of his, a brandy
merchant, accompanied her in the chaise, the tutor rode first. A
clergyman refused to marry them some time ago at Lambeth, but they
have since been married at Oxford by a Mr Leslie, a Catholic priest,
which is not enough. They are not yet discovered.


_The Same._
GROSVENOR SQUARE, _March 4th, 1805._

MY DEAR JOHN,

... London cannot be duller, those who remember it formerly were
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