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letter 18 Apr. in Gore Creevey’s Life and Times (1934) 18: [T]he King was told Mr. Pitt would be happy to serve him if he (Mr. P.) named his administration, to which the Monarch replied, ‘Then he must wait till my death; I desire to hear no more of this business.’ So that you see the aspiring Billy is distinctly rump’d. letter 5 July in Gore Creevey’s Life and Times (1934) 82: [H]aving got rid of the old drone Ponsonby, Cole became factious and announced an opposition. letter 12 July in Gore Creevey’s Life and Times (1934) 104: [T]here is a disposition here to further the views of Prinney; our answer is there are many who w'd. go great lengths agt. Mrs. P., and I don't feel I am so warm for her as I did. letter 25 Mar. in Gore Creevey’s Life and Times (1934) 106: I have worked like a negro—e.g. my falling on Canning at one in the morning the night after my exhausting motion on modern manufacturers . letter 16 Feb. in Gore Creevey’s Life and Times (1934) 140: Warrender [...] did nothing but bluster and vow vengeance upon me at his club at White's, telling every one that the very first opportunity, he would blow me up sky high in the House of Commons. report 5 Sept. in Gore Creevey’s Life and Times (1934) 144: [T]he whole of the inhabitants of the South of Ireland [. . .] had assembled pêle-mêle on the Curragh to get a glimpse of the idol [...] But lo! the merry-go-wimbles, which had so unreasonably attacked the Royal stomach, (for even Kings are subject to these unkingly complaints), gave his Majesty full employment at the Phoenix Park. letter c. Sept. in Gore Creevey’s Life and Times (1934) 163: Bennett's account of the D. of Y. is exactly consistent with the language of the rest of the family, as to this being a slap at the D. of Y.'s party. letter 23 Apr. in Gore Creevey’s Life and Times (1934) 178: What think you of seeing all our fine ladies rattling down this street today in their feathers and paint to see their dear Sovereign, when lo and behold poor dear Prinney was not to be seen. letter 18 July in Gore Creevey’s Life and Times (1934) 186: I did not go to the Ball, it is said to have been dull, but very fine. Taylor who went as a Jew Pedlar and Knife Seller was smoaked instantly as I told him he would be, and got most infernally hustled. letter 21 Apr. in Gore Creevey’s Life and Times (1934) 178: [Brougham] is in great force and very much up after last week's campaign. letter 2 June in Gore Creevey’s Life and Times (1934) 209: There are all kinds of reports about the state of the King's health. [...] In the mean time Our York is all alive O! He dined at Sefton's this day week as gay as a lark. letter 19 Aug. in Gore Creevey’s Life and Times (1934) 243: I could not resist flying a kite to Lord Grey by that post, . . . in exposing that universal Humbug, now so fashionable, . . . that Canning was the author of any new National Policy for the country. letter 26 Mar. in Gore Creevey’s Life and Times (1934) 236: What a handsome, spanking creature Lady Erroll is. letter 8 Mar. in Gore Creevey’s Life and Times (1934) 262: [H]appening to catch his eye, I telegraphed him, and having instantly abandoned his stirrup, he called out, ‘I’ll come over to you’. letter 15 Aug. in Gore Creevey’s Life and Times (1934) 270: There were quantities of visitors in the house, many of whom, of course, one knows as brother dandys or Turf Men. letter 21 June in Gore Creevey’s Life and Times (1934) 347: I dined with my fellow servants yesterday, about 33 in number . . . I went in full fig, and I assure you I had a very pleasant day. letter 25 Jan. in Gore Creevey’s Life and Times (1934) 336: [T]hen John [Bull, a magazine] proceeds to belabour Jimmy McKintosh without mercy for taking a place at the India Board which I, Mr. Creevey, moved to abolish as useless, and for which motion, he, Jimmy, himself voted. It was Lord Grey who told me this before everybody, in fits of laughing at the attack on my wardrobe, and still more at the leathering of Jimmy. letter 4 July in Gore Creevey’s Life and Times (1934) 368: [S]he said, ‘Lord Essex, have you ordered the fire to be lighted in the next room?’ and upon his saying, ‘No,’ she said, ‘Then I shall light it myself,’ and accordingly it was all alive O when we went to coffee. letter to his step-daughter 20 Apr. in Gore Creevey’s Life and Times (1934) 365: Many thanks to you, my pretty, for your daily accounts of your invalids. letter 18 Nov. in Gore Creevey’s Life and Times (1934) 396: I never saw anyone more bored or more fairly done than Lady Grey is with these two young women. letter 22 July in Gore Creevey’s Life and Times (1934) 386: Suppose I was to run stuffy and not tell you where I have just been—at no other place than Greenwich. Dear, Dear, Dearest Lord and Lady Sefton, the Ladies Louisa, Katherine, and myself. letter 21 Jan. in Gore Creevey’s Life and Times (1934) 378: However, ‘tis but in vain for placemen to complain,’so, ta, ta, My Dears all. letter 30 Jan. in Gore Creevey’s Life and Times (1934) 403: Well, at the expiration of these elections, the Tories are in my opinion dead beat [...] there will be a dead majority of seventy against them. letter 5 Aug. in Gore Creevey’s Life and Times (1934) 427: [of the newly crowned Victoria] Can you wish for a better account of a little tit of 18 made all at once into a Queen? letter 3 Jan. in Gore Creevey’s Life and Times (1934) 437: I retract any skit I may have been guilty of at the expence of Lady Eliz. Stanhope. She is full of good sense, and a most accurate observer of persons, and she has been and is a most valuable ally to me here.