| Description | Typescript copy letter from George Scott, Ravenscourt
to
Unnamed correspondent
Original dated 11 April 1827
Is obliged for the note "but as I did not send out the other invitations till I had heard from you, having a presentiment about the Club, I will by no means obtrude on your kindness by interfering with it; and I found shortly afterwards from Mr Flood's letter that I was to have the pleasure of meeting you on the 25th.
My brother does not come here till the 24th, otherwise he would have been the most happy in accompanying us on the previous Saturday, and as he may stay some days in Town, I hope we shall all meet here, before he returns to Rotherfield.
Thanks to my piety! The new Church is begun at last, but the parsons will have it named after that papistical Saint, Peter, because… they… tell me they think George is an heathanist Saint. However, Piety is its own reward, and I have lett between 4 & 500 p Ann. on building leases, and am Petering away in Squares, Crescents and Terraces and I hope to finish with St George and the Dragon, and we shall see which Saint gets the most custom." |