The Creevey Papers
Henry Brougham to Thomas Creevey, [June 1814]
“Temple, Monday, [June, 1814].
“Dear C.,
“Just as I was going to begin a letter to you,
entered old Hargrave, as mad as
Bedlam, and I have ![]()
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been so completely bored to death by
him that I can scarcely write at all. . . . The
Doctor on Saturday evening gave notice of the letter being
delivered to P.* on Friday, but I made him
again apply yesterday to know if there was any answer, and the Dr. said he had
not received P.’s commands to make any answer to it.
All being safe and right, you see it is fired off, and I may add that I was
finally decided in favour of publishing to-day by the apprehension of Alexr., &c.,† coming in a day or two,
and taking off the attention of Mr. and Mrs.
Bull.‡ I have, moreover, made Mrs. P.§ go to the opera to-morrow evening, but without any
row, merely to show she does not skulk. If there is a good reception, so much
the better.”
Queen Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1768-1821)
Married the Prince of Wales in 1795 and separated in 1796; her husband instituted
unsuccessful divorce proceedings in 1820 when she refused to surrender her rights as
queen.
