The Creevey Papers
Earl of Essex to Thomas Creevey, 7 August 1837
“9, Belgrave Square, 7 Aug., 1837.
“The Duke of
Sussex has at last decided to dine here next Saturday the 12th.
Therefore I hope I shall see you on that day. . . . Lord Munster has pleaded in forma
pauperis to retain the round Tower at Windsor, and I
hear pays about £1000 a year. The Duke of Sussex in the
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possible gave up his claim, and the
Queen most kindly returned the baton
to Lord Munster, who will of course
vote against us. . . . So the Duchess of St.
Albans is dead, and Lyndhurst married at
Paris to Lewis
Goldsmith’s daughter. There are two great people amply provided for!”
Thomas Creevey (1768-1838)
Whig politician aligned with Charles James Fox and Henry Brougham; he was MP for Thetford
(1802-06, 1807-18) Appleby (1820-26) and Downton (1831-32). He was convicted of libel in
1813.
Lewis Goldsmith (1764 c.-1846)
English journalist and pamphleteer; as a Jacobin he published
The
Crimes of Cabinets (1801) and as an anti-Gallican,
The Secret
History of the Cabinet of Bonaparte (1810).
