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letter 30 Dec. in Maxwell Creevey Papers I (1903) 2: Upon my soul, Creevey, it was all a damned hum. What with your election songs and your rompings—what with your carousings with the men and your bamboozlings with the women, you are a most complete hand indeed. letter 30 Dec. in Maxwell Creevey Papers I (1903) 2: Upon my soul, Creevey, it was all a damned hum. What with your election songs and your rompings—what with your carousings with the men and your bamboozlings with the women, you are a most complete hand indeed. letter in Maxwell Creevey Papers (1903) I 20: His intimates—his nearest neighbours—Canning and Co., sat mute, astounded and evidently thinking themselves disgraced. letter 16 Sept. in Maxwell Creevey Papers (1903) I 18: The most cheerful fellow on politics is my brother Jack; you'll hear no croaking from him. letter 21 Dec. in Maxwell Creevey Papers (1903) I 20: Canning and Co., sat mute, astounded and evidently thinking themselves disgraced by the shuffling tacticks [sic] of their military leader. letter 21 Jan. in Maxwell Creevey Papers (1903) I 22: [W]e all [...] jawed and drank till twelve or one o'clock, and I suppose I was devilish abusive, for they are all as shy as be damned of me ever since. letter 3 May in Maxwell Creevey Papers (1903) I 27: [T]he Monarch is done, and can no longer make Ministers. letter 21 Jan. in Maxwell (ed.) Creevey Papers (1903) I 22: It was to meet Brogden and Col. Porter, two cursed rum touches that he has persuaded to vote with him and to desert Fox. letter 10 July in Maxwell Creevey Papers (1903) I 80: Poor Charlotte was rather ‘in the basket,’ for you know Ogles and Greys do not take much pains to make a stranger comfortable. letter 9 Oct. in Maxwell Creevey Papers (1903) I 89: It is, indeed, a damned thing that Wellesley should give the lie direct to the protesting part of the statement of his friends. How the devil will they get over this? letter 11 Oct. in Maxwell Creevey Papers (1903) I 90: I hope Bonoparte [sic] has now enough on his hands without thinking of invading England. He has overshot his mark, and, I have great hopes, has done for himself. letter 9 Oct. in Maxwell Creevey Papers (1903) I 89: It is, indeed, a damned thing that Wellesley should give the lie direct [...] Now we have the rascals upon the hip. diary 13 Nov. in Maxwell Creevey Papers (1903) I 113: Te Duke of York's observations or information to Mrs. Clarke concerning the Royal family—his hatred of the Prince of Wales—his jokes about the Queen and the intrigues and accouchement of the Princess—all in the coarsest and most licentious language. What a damnable piece of work the examination of these Lords and Princes will be. letter 5 Oct. in Maxwell Creevey Papers (1903) I 108: Canning calling Coke of Norfolk a landed grandee was damned good. letter in Maxwell Creevey Papers (1903) I 1: [A]ll I can collect from the Duke of Bedford and FitzPatrick it is not the desire of Ponsonby and the wise heads in London that any great effort should be made for an attendance. letter 7 Jan. in Maxwell Creevey Papers (1903) I 118: Now write to me once more and tell me what you think of my state of mind from what I have written. I always take advice and criticism in good part from a friend—I know I do—so cut away boldly. letter 19 Feb. in Maxwell Creevey Papers (1903) I 129: The physician’s name is Dr. Knighton, accoucheur (as Grey says) to Poll Raffle, Wellesley’s Cyprian. letter 23 Feb. in Maxwell Creevey Papers (1903) 1 130: There is the devil to pay with the India Company, and the Government have given up for the present bringing forward the renewal of their charter. letter 23 Feb. in Maxwell Creevey Papers (1903) I 130: Brougham was laying about him upon Canning's ‘truckling’ to Eldon for his late admission into the Cabinet. diary 3 Nov. in Maxwell Creevey Papers (1903) I 149: I have heard of no one observation the Regent has made get out of the commonest slip-slop, till to-day. letter 5 Oct. in Maxwell Creevey Papers (1903) I 170: I am as happy as a grig with little Thet, and don’t care a damn for Liverpool. letter 4 Oct. in Maxwell Creevey Papers (1903) I 169: Bernard Howard is deeply affected with the apparent treachery of my colleague, and his evident wishes to give me the go-by; but we shall see what we shall see. letter 6 June in Maxwell Creevey Papers (1903) I 16: The Whigs evidently know of an offer made to Whitbread, and are as civil to-day as be damned. letter 2 June in Maxwell Creevey Papers (1903) I 163: Grenville I consider a dead man, and Prinney, Wellesley and Canning are both madmen and villains. letter ? May in Maxwell Creevey Papers (1903) 154: We sat this morning till four [...] so am knocked up and can add no more. letter 17 Oct. in Maxwell Creevey Papers (1903) I 172: Now for the first time since Diddy [his nickname] left home, can he sit down in quietness to write to his pretty. letter 27 May in Maxwell Creevey Papers (1903) I 158: [used affectionately] My jokes about Wellesley are in great request. Lady Holland said to me on Sunday in the drawing-room after dinner—‘Come here and sit by me, you mischievous toad, and promise that you won't begin upon the new Government with your jokes’. letter [n.d.] in Maxwell Creevey Papers (1903) I 183: Everything went off remarkably well last night. letter 29 July in Maxwell Creevey Papers (1903) I 185: If all these peerages take place, I am for a regular attack on the prostitution of public honours, and a seriatim show-up of all the new Ministry. letter 14 June in Maxwell Creevey Papers (1903) I 197: He came to Lady Salisbury on Sunday from his own dinner beastly drunk.