The Creevey Papers
Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 11 March 1830
“March 11th.
“. . . I was at Lord
Holland’s yesterday. . . . They both looked very ill. They
are evidently most sorely pinched—he in his land, and she still more in
her sugar and rum. So when I gave it as my opinion that, if things went on as
they did, paper must ooze
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out again by connivance or otherwise, she said she wished
to God the time was come, or anything else to save them. He said he never would
consent to the return of paper, but he thought the standard might be altered:
i.e., a sovereign to be made by law worth one or two
or three and twenty shillings.
Henry Richard Fox, third baron Holland (1773-1840)
Whig politician and literary patron; Holland House was for many years the meeting place
for reform-minded politicians and writers. He also published translations from the Spanish
and Italian;
Memoirs of the Whig Party was published in 1852.
William Harry Vane, first duke of Cleveland (1766-1842)
The son of Henry Vane, second earl of Darlington (d. 1792); educated at Christ Church,
Oxford, he was a lifelong friend of Henry Brougham and a notable sportsman.
