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APPENDIX A 2. 



Ware, 

 Wednesday Afternoon. 



I came yesterday from Newmarket, and lay at Calvert's 

 to hunt this morning. I have now just dined, and am 

 waiting till Panton is dressed, to set forward for London. 

 I should have written to you from Newmarket, but I did 

 not know where to direct. 



Orford has had many applications for the Deputy- 

 Eangership, and one from the Duke of Gloucester. But he 

 intends to give it to Shirley, which he has told his Eoyal 

 Highness : so far that is settled ; but you do not know 

 what is settled likewise, which is, that you are to have the 

 house,^ provided his Majesty approves of it, which I am 

 sure he will. I imagine that Orford means that you 

 should give Shirley a hundred : by that means Orford 

 gives him two hundred a year, which will be very con- 

 venient to him, as he is quite undone. You cannot think 

 how happy I am that you are to have a house, and so 

 pretty a one, so very near mine. It is, you know, what 

 we have both wished so much. Orford was vastly obliging, 

 and expressed a great deal of pleasure in having an oppor- 

 tunity of obliging both you and me. 



You think much too seriously concerning what you 

 talked to me about when we parted. It is impossible that 



^ Supposed to have been the house in the Green Park, till then 

 recently occupied by Lady William Gordon ; pulled down, 1S43. 

 Subsequent events show that George Selwyn was disappointed in 

 obtaining this house, as no trace exists of his having lived there. 

 Lord March's house was nearly opposite to it. 



