Letter from Lord Frederick Cavendish to William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire

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Concerns the capture of Quebec: "Townshend's friends are beginning to give all the credit to him and to rob Wolfe as much as they can"; a monument to Wolfe in Westminster; the regimental commissions; an alderman jailed for robbing a curate; news of Covent garden being full most nights and the other playhouse being empty unless Garrick acts; the poor acting of a girl that seems to be popular; his recovering occulus; a quarrel between two great ladies being made public. Signed: "F Cavendish".

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