. The Houblon family, its story and times. beautiful stuffs are not to be seen nowadays exceptin museums or in cherished morsels—relics of past splen-dours of our great - grandmothers Court plumage!Nothing is wanting, from dress suits to scarlet huntingfrocks and embroidered dressing jacket; not forgettingthe huge silver-mounted spectacles from the depths ofa pocket, and the favourite gold-topped malacca caneengraved with the owners initials. 1775 Some letters written by Charles Cotton (then a lieu-tenant in the Navy) to his cousin, Laetitia Houblon,during the war in America are at Hal
. The Houblon family, its story and times. beautiful stuffs are not to be seen nowadays exceptin museums or in cherished morsels—relics of past splen-dours of our great - grandmothers Court plumage!Nothing is wanting, from dress suits to scarlet huntingfrocks and embroidered dressing jacket; not forgettingthe huge silver-mounted spectacles from the depths ofa pocket, and the favourite gold-topped malacca caneengraved with the owners initials. 1775 Some letters written by Charles Cotton (then a lieu-tenant in the Navy) to his cousin, Laetitia Houblon,during the war in America are at Hallingbury, and,until the intervention of the French in the quarrel,are very illustrative of the lack of energy with whichit was carried on. He talks of * Rebells, it is true, butduring the intervals of fighting an excellent under-standing subsisted between the belligerents ; the former behaving exceeding polite and not disturbing us T776 the least, while we passed as pleasant a time as oursituation would admit of. Under their heaven-born.
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