The letters of Henry Hoare
Subtitle: 1760-1781
By: edited by Dudley Dodd
Contributors: Wiltshire Record Society
Series: Wiltshire Record Society -- volume 71; Wiltshire Record Society (Series) -- v.71.
Publisher: Wiltshire Record Society
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Chippenham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 442
ISBN-13: 9780901333483
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Correspondence; History; Stourhead (England)
Description: "The letters, from Henry Hoare to his son-in-law, Lord Bruce, wife and children attest his devotion and generosity towards the family. They contain nuggets about the garden and house at Stourhead and permit glimpses of Henry the banker and businessman in his wranglings with the Sardinian envoy and Duke of Northumberland. Soppiness seeps into the later letters, cut by quips and quotations. Henry's respect for Lord Bruce throbs unremittingly and was merited by the character of that dull, upright-living, courtier to George III. The letters are accompanied by brief biographies and a gazetteer of the people and places met along the way."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: I. Marriage settlement, 1760-1761; title: II. The Count de Viry affair, 1760-1762; title: III. The treaty of Paris and British politics, 1762-1763; title: IV. A faux pas and a hot summer, 1763-1765; title: V. Pocket boroughs, 1766-1770; title: VI. Paris in the Springtime, letters, 1771-1775; title: VII. Educating the Prince of Wales, 1776; title: VIII. War again, 1777-1779; title: IX. Life but not quite as usual, 1780-1781; title: Appendices. Biographies; title: Gazetteer.