“I have been highly honored by receiving your
Lordship’s most obliging Note of the 28th ultimo; and I continued to make
daily enquiries for Mr. Creevy’s
expected arrival at the Hotels your Lordship referred to, ‘till a letter
came, under Lord Sefton’s Privilege,
addressed to Mr. Creevy at Morrisson’s Hotel; when I
secured there a comfortable Bed Room for your
Lordship’s Friend, which proved to be fortunate, because, when
Mr. Creevy came to Dublin on last Wednesday Evening,
and before he made himself known at Morrisson’s,
he was shewn, there, into the only vacant Bed Room, a small and objectionable
apartment. But, on announcing His Name, He was shewn
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“Mr. Creevy did me the Honor to dine with me here, on the Day after his Arrival in Dublin, when I was lucky enough to secure Mr. Blake, the Surgeon-General Crampton and Mr. Greville to meet Mr. Creevy at Dinner, and he was much pleased by meeting them.
“It occurred that I was asked to Dinner at Lord F. L Gower’s the next Day, yesterday, and as Mr. Creevy, also, received an Invitation, I had the Honor to call for him and to take him to Dinner to your Lordship’s late Residence in the Park,* and to bring him home safe to Morrisson’s. I am happy to assure you that Lord Francis L. Gower has, again, invited Mr. Creevy to Dinner for this Day, and I shall not fail to attend Mr. Creevy, to see all the public Institutions, and Lions of Dublin, finding he is so well pleased with our City, that He purposes, now, to remain here Eight or Ten Days.
“I moved our Friend Mr. James Corry to call on Mr. Creevy, as he could not meet him at my House, from a previous Engagement, and Corry is greatly pleased at his good Fortune, to be acquainted with so distinguished and so highly talented a Gentleman as your Lordship knows Mr. Creevy to be. Blake, who met him at the Duke of Norfolk’s, and Crampton here, are rejoiced now to have an opportunity of inviting Mr. Creevy to their Houses in Dublin.
