306 'OLD q' 



upon getting it over. But if you do not give very 

 particular directions, it will appear very clumsy when you 

 come to see it with our equipages. Certainly I would 

 only have the body made in France, and that with par- 

 ticular directions to keep it as light as possible. You 

 may then have your carriage made here, which will be 

 beyond all comparison better, and your equipage will then 

 be very handsome. The painting, and the fitting it up 

 with cushions in the inside, will be better done in France, 

 but I would avoid much finery, as the grand simple is the 

 thing. 



The Duke of Ancaster is Master of the Horse to the 

 King, and Lord Delawar to the Queen. . . . 



APPENDIX F 1. 



^th December 1766. 

 My dear George, — I received this morning your letter 

 from Versailles. I have wrote to you very constantly 

 lately, and do not recollect to have missed any post but 

 when I was at Newmarket. I like your letters prodigi- 

 ously, they are so descriptive. All our old Paris friends 

 come round in their turn, but you never mention Madame 

 de Jourlin. ... I suppose she is not at Paris. By the 

 neglect of my servant you did not receive two fans that I 

 intended to have sent you by the Bunburys. They are 

 finer than those which I hope you have received by Lord 

 Fitzwilliam, but I shall have an opportunity soon of send- 

 ing them. Did you ever get any from Lady Townshend ? 

 She sent me two when she thought I was going to Paris, 



