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MS untraced. The text is taken from the transcript published in Sir Henry Bunbury (ed.), The Correspondence of Sir Thomas Hanmer, Bart., Speaker of the House of Commons, with a Memoir of his Life to Which is Added Other Relicks of a Gentleman’s Family (London, 1838), pp. 448–50. The editors thank Angus Whitehead for bringing this letter to light: see Whitehead, ‘“I anticipate rather a smile at my adventures”: an unrecorded letter from Robert Bloomfield to Sir Charles Bunbury’, Notes and Queries, 61 (2014), 73–76.
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I think you will pardon my thus writing to you instead of calling, when I inform you that a violent cold has caused me several fits of the headache, and I cannot this wet day persuade myself to venture out.
Your zeal in my service
Mr Windham was too much engaged to see me. The Earl of Carlisle
On the same day, at half-past one, I met with a civil reception from the servants at Devonshire House. But the duchess
I had all along a great desire to see Mr. Fox, and therefore twice
declined calling, because there appear’d several carriages at the door,
Thus, Sir, I have told you my adventures with a bluntness of expression which I hope will bear with it its own apology. And with admiration of your frankness, and all the esteem that condescension is capable of inspiring.
To Sir Charles Bunbury.