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The Creevey Papers
Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 22 August 1820
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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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“Brooks’s, 22nd Aug., ½ past 4.

“. . . Upon the whole, I hope things are looking better for us to-day. The people in the streets were numerous, but not so much so as formerly, nor was their quality so good. Yesterday’s evidence had certainly shook her friends—always excepting Lady Gwydyr* and her family at their house at Whitehall. I stood on Lord Melbourne’s steps to see the Queen pass, and the Dowr. Gwydyr (alias Eresby) with all

* The Dowager Lady Gwydyr was Lady Willoughby d’Eresby and joint Great Chamberlain in her own right.

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her family black as sloes, with weepers, windows open, &c., all bowed at once again and again, with an awe and devotion as if they had been good Catholicks and the Queen the Virgin Mary. . . .”