. A duke and his friends : the life and letters of the second Dukeof Richmond . to have got overone anxiety but to fall into another was indeed enoughto lower your spirits, and I am not surprised it did ;but that I received this morning of the i8th givesme great satisfaction, since I find Lady Cadogan ^ isrecovered ; I cant say I expected it, and that occasiondmy last Letters being in so melancholy a stile, for byyour account I had no great hopes of her, and thoughtthat trying to give you any, if the worst had happened,woud only have added disappointment to your grief;whereas if she recovered,
. A duke and his friends : the life and letters of the second Dukeof Richmond . to have got overone anxiety but to fall into another was indeed enoughto lower your spirits, and I am not surprised it did ;but that I received this morning of the i8th givesme great satisfaction, since I find Lady Cadogan ^ isrecovered ; I cant say I expected it, and that occasiondmy last Letters being in so melancholy a stile, for byyour account I had no great hopes of her, and thoughtthat trying to give you any, if the worst had happened,woud only have added disappointment to your grief;whereas if she recovered, as it has pleased God shehas, the less you had flattered yourself about her, thegreater your pleasure woud be. I hope you are nowquite easy and happy since I find Louisa is quite well;here is fine weather come again, which I hope willrecover her, and I now begin to hope we shall havesome Summer at last ; both my little Boys have atpresent a little uneasiness with their Teeth, I believeI forgot to tell you the little one cut two some time ^ She died in October 1749, aged Jroiii a pa Ad .ti^. i>. EMILIE LENNOX, COUNTESS OF KILDARE AND IIRST DUCHESS OF LEINSTER,Duiiyhtcr of the sctotKl Duke- of Richinoiul. ** Tom Jones 665 ago, we did not perceive he had the least pain withthem, but now that he is about more, he seems tosuffer a little with them ; it makes George mostimmensely humoursome and cross, and one cant beangry with them, or contradict them, when one knowsthat it is not natural to them but only occasioned bypain ! there is hardly a word he hears that he dontaim at, and grows vastly entertaining, you say youare Sorry he is not fond of Cuggly, but he fancies heis, and that is the same thing ; he calls himself theChildrens Dry Nurse, and I think he is, for he iscontinually with them. Nurse Bridge does very wellwith good looking after, indeed the Poor Woman meanswell, but she is very silly. I reckon Lord Petershamand Lady Caroline are much disappointed at ha
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