Stuk 38 - Letter from Robert Pemberton Milnes to Thomas Davison Bland

2 sheets.

Boulogne. - They have made a friend of the doctor; Oliver might enjoy Lake Geneva in summer but will find winter society too bookish for his taste; Milnes' plans to move to Milan, which is 'beset with the fewest English'; Sir Henry Mildmay went there from Paris heavily in debt; musical attractions of Milan; possible events at home; would like to linger abroad for four years but must consider his son - would like him to visit Egypt and Syria. His son reports Savile greatly improved in worldly attributes; Hallam; Cavendish's Cambridge exploits; political effects of Catholic emancipation.

Central section of letter missing.

Boulogne society: Greville only on formal terms with his wife; Graham's daughters; Mr Maxwell the next Lord Farnham 'very gentlemanly but a sad [roué]?; others here are [?] Berington, Kortright, Martin the former MP, Gordon, Sir A. Ramsay, Mr St. Aubin, Brooke Richmond and 'Mrs Salmon the vocalist'; calculation of reduced expenses here - 'we feed our servants on turbots for oeconomy'; turkeys and wild fowl cheap. Bland should bring his household here '& go back having saved 10 or 12, 000 and wonder how your trees have grown'.