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The Creevey Papers
Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 28 August 1827
INTRODUCTION & INDEXES
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Introduction
Vol. I. Contents
Ch. I: 1793-1804
Ch. II: 1805
Ch. III: 1805
Ch. IV: 1806-08
Ch. V: 1809
Ch. VI: 1810
Ch. VII: 1811
Ch. VIII: 1812
Ch. IX: 1813-14
Ch X: 1814-15
Ch XI: 1815-16
Ch XII: 1817-18
Ch XIII: 1819-20
Vol. II. Contents
Ch I: 1821
Ch. II: 1822
Ch. III: 1823-24
Ch. IV: 1825-26
Ch. V: 1827
Ch. VI: 1827-28
Ch. VII: 1828
Ch. VIII: 1829
Ch. IX: 1830-31
Ch. X: 1832-33
Ch. XI: 1833
Ch. XII: 1834
Ch XIII: 1835-36
Ch XIV: 1837-38
Index
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“28th.

“. . . Take a specimen of my lord’s turn for storytelling. I was going it at breakfast just now with considerable success in the ‘Nanny goat’† line; so my lord in his turn said:—‘You have heard of Mr.

* The 2nd Earl of Tyrone and 1st Marquess of Waterford.

† Anecdote.

128 THE CREEVEY PAPERS [Ch. V.
Fitzgerald, who was called the Fighting Fitzgerald, whom I used to see a good deal of at Lord Westmorland’s. There was a man who bet a wager he would insult him; so, going very near him in a coffeehouse, he said—“I smell an Irishman!” to which the other replied—“You shall never smell another!” and, taking up a knife, cut off his nose.’”