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Diary Of Mary Countess Of Wales Cowjper ...
so Kneller many _, week "in the s in same my _greait posture illness that . " the dear fellow watched me
The latter end of Decembermother much weaker and extremel ill would . _^ She spea los k t her m appe y father tite e as ntirel if , my living y , arid , a at grew for times him her , and memory expect , so him that home she y t .
W had just she happened recollect . In his short death , , it e seemed had reall to y " be with t is so livel ofte n a talked grief , as of , but i 172 seen 4 four very months few instan after ces her — husb a broken and . " heart . She died the 5 th of February ,
, _^ coming Lady t Cowp o cour er tthoug commenced h it is evident her diary that her 1714 acquaintance , on her with first
sen the tence Princess is the of key Wales , to her had object been of in long keep standing ing one . . The opening
wan The t of leis perp ure etual to wri lies te that dow one n all hears the even have ts determined that are w me orth , in remembering spite of the
whilst I am at , Court ; and although I find it will he impossible for rue to week do this and daily I , intend yet I hope this I shall for be able own to use have it being an hour a Or two draf once t onl a
which ; if God bless me with oy health and leisure , I intend hereaf roug ter to revise y , and di , gest into a better method . " ,
diary refer Had Lad to would the y Cowp reason have er been been of the still en fragmentary abled more to valuable carry condition out . this It in may intention which be well it , has the to
reached October us 1716 . The There first portion is a break extends of four from October , to 1714 1720 , to years up
which when a closes , still more in . Jul roug of h the same irregular . documen It seems t that is ap in pended 1722 , , y ent of Lord year from life ,
was repor short l ts y af were lica ter ted the rife , retirem t houg plot h to restore tirel all her wi the thout Cowper Stuarts founda wi . th Lad t t ion public y , tha Cowper t tion he ,
of becam that alarmed tion , before and de stroyed as well as diary numerou , s other excep aers bearing the secret history , of the times . pp
Lad From Cow upon passages er were in ac this tuat diary ed by i t is timen evident ts far that both advance Lord of and the
firs sordid t times t p in the which seals t hey 170 li 5 ved abolished . Thus t Lord he cus Cowper tom of , receiv when in he g
great new- accep year disgust ' s gift of s , Lord compu Notting ted to , average who £ u 3 , 000 to a pock year e , t to the the se
g determined ifts' with a protest when sh against e went " to tyrant cour , t Cutktom never to . " tell Lad a lie Cowper and ;
c u Wh rren at t p does hra , se Cowper in the mouth say ? for of her royal never , mistress tells lies . , " And became these a and
w Th double ere e Jacobi t - imes dealing te w feelin h , were g decei was shared t and trong in . alik deception thro e u by ghout peer , prevarication the and cquntry commoner , and .
m exiled any of royal those famil abo y . ut The the court account were given deep by ly Lad attached y Cowper to the of
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 2, 1864, page 205, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02051864/page/61/
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