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The Creevey Papers
Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 5 May 1835
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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
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“May 5th.

“. . . About this nonsense of Alvanley’s, I consider every part of Alvanley’s conduct as faulty. His first movement against O’Connell was political; it was to
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create disunion between O’Connell and his tail and the Whigs. Then I know that this arose from spite, Alvanley having been lately refused a place in the Household which he asked for. Then the publicity he has given to his challenge of O’Connell is against all rule. However, he has been at last accommodated by one of the O’Connell family, who had 3 shots at him last night in a duel, and no harm done to either party. . . . Alas, alas, the Widow’s Mite (you know that is the name that has been given by some wag to Johnny Russell)* has been beaten black and blue in Devonshire. . . .

“As I was walking just now, according to my constant custom, in the enclosure in St. James’s Park, who should I meet but Bessy Holyoake, alias Goodrick, all alone, having dismissed her footman at the gate, and we had a charming walk quite round the whole, in the course of which we met, first Rogers and Mrs. Norton arm in arm; then Goodrick, the Duke of Richmond and Graham, ditto; then Lord Durham and his 3 children.”