Thos. Malton, pxt.]
THE CIRCUS, AT BATH.
MR. PITT VISITS HAYES
Mr. Montagu joined his wife for a week at Tunbridge, when he had to return to London. On September 16 she writes to him—
“I intend to be with you on Thursday.... I find Mr. Pitt has some intentions, as I told you when you was here, of going to Heys, in case he should not be well enough to take the long journey he intends, and he seems much pleased that I will lend him that little tenement; but as I apprehend a feather bed more will be wanted than used to be, I propose to send one from Hill Street.... Mr. Pitt leaves this place to-morrow, he is now going to Dr. Ascough’s, and from thence to Stowe[54] and Hagley.[55] Mr. West goes to Stowe with him.”
[54] Lady Cobham’s.
[55] Sir George Lyttelton’s seat.
Probably it was from this time that Pitt took such a fancy to Hayes, which endured all his lifetime.
MR. HOOKE
The next letter to Gilbert West I transcribe in portions—