| Administrative History | Mrs Elizabeth Carter, Deal. |
| Description | Letter from Mrs Elizabeth Carter, Deal, to Mrs Elizabeth Montagu, London, thanking her for the ?receipe Montagu had sent; telling her that if the yeast had not been bitter it would have produced excellent bread and saying that she and her family have been eating standard bread. Carter writes that the weather must drive Montagu from her 'solitude at Sandleford, to your Fireside, & Social Circle in portman Square'. Letter mentions the bad wind, rain, thunder and lightening and says 'The Scepter man of war has lost 3 Anchors & Cables, & last night sent in great Haste for a fresh Supply, but no Boat could go off, to Carry it'.
Letter mentions that Miss Brühl [Harret (b. 1772), daughter of John Maurice [Hans Moritz] Brühl, Count von Brühl (1736 - 1809), diplomatist and patron of science] was married to Mr Hugh Scott [of Harden, later Lord Polwarth] and says that Carter did not know that ?it was the son of Lady Di [Lady Diana Scott, nee Hume Campbell, youngest daughter of the third Earl of Marchmont]. Carter writes that she was extremely shocked by the treatment of the Sovereign and speculates on the motives of the mob: "I am, as I am sure you are, extremely shocked by the outrageous treatment of our Sovereign. There are so few of my correspondents now in Town, that I have no particluar Accounts of this terrifying Affair: but what I hear from the papers, or a private letter sent to this Town, I am willing to hope, though the last was from an Eye Witness, that the Description was Exaggerated: but in any ?Dear it is very dreadful. I am persuaded the mob would never have been worked up into such a fury from their own motion, but must have been excited by wretches of a Class above them".
Letter mentions the trial of Hardy [probably Thomas Hardy (1752 - 1832), radical and a founder of the London Corresponding Society]; says that bad weather has meant Carter has not heard if her friends are back in Eastrey, mentions Mr Bowdler [Thomas Bowdler (1754 - 1825), writer and literary editor] and Mrs E. ?Hersey, and mentions the breaking up of a camp and the departure of the company for Margate. Letter mentions the fallen price of meat. |