Dear Sir,—I understand that to obviate future
difficulties, I ought now to make marriage settlements. I entrust this to your
management, if you will be kind enough to take the matter in hand. In the
course of three weeks or a month, I shall take the precaution of being
remarried, before which I believe these adjustments will be necessary. I wish
the sum settled on my wife in case of my death to be £700 per
annum. The maiden name is
Harriett Westbrook with two
T’s—Harriett. Will you be so kind as to
address me at
Mr. Westbrook’s, 23,
Chapel-street, Grosvenor-square? We most probably go to London to-morrow. We
shall see
Whitton, when I shall neither
forget your good advice, nor cease to be grateful for it. With kind
remembrances to your family,
Yours most gratefully,
Cuckfield, Oct, 21, 1811.
John Westbrook (d. 1835)
Of Chapel Street, Grosvenor Square, former proprietor of The Mount coffeehouse; he was
the father of Harriet Shelley, the first wife of the poet.