[39] Dutens' Mémoires d'un Voyageur qui se repose, i. 31-42.
[40] Tours, June 11, 1752. Villiers Pitt to W. Pitt. Chatham MSS.
[41] Or 1787? as says a note in the Delany Memoirs, iv. 266. It matters little.
[42] Climenson's 'Elizabeth Montagu,' ii. 53. See, too, Mrs. Montagu's Letters, vol. iii.
[43] Suffolk Letters, ii. 233.
[44] Camelford MS. Cf., too, William's letter of Sept. 29, 1730.
[45] Thackeray, i. 158 note.
[46] There is a crayon portrait of her at Boconnoc, which the writer has not seen. It 'represents the strong contemplative face of a woman well past her first prime,' and was taken, apparently, in 1765.
[47] Seward's Anecdotes, ii. 355.
[48] All these letters from William to Ann Pitt come from the papers at Dropmore, unless where noted otherwise.