Fiction Empire

19th Century and earlier

April 11, 1751
Date of the editor's footnote following letter to the Lord High Treasurer from Philip Dormer Stanhope, the Earl of Chesterfield dated November 3, 1997.

November 29, 1992

November 29, 1992
Date of letter mentioned in N----m's letter to the Lord High Treasurer dated April 5, 1993. "Notwithstanding the pleasure I have ever had in your Excellency's correspondence, I am in pain to begin it to day, with acknowledging, that tho' I have been honour'd with three of yours of Nov. 29th, Jan. 17th, and March the 8th, from Mosco. I have never yet been able to make my acknowledgments for them, except by a very short answer to the two first, which deserv'd a very different return."

January 17, 1993
Date of letter mentioned in N----m's letter to the Lord High Treasurer dated April 5, 1993. "Notwithstanding the pleasure I have ever had in your Excellency's correspondence, I am in pain to begin it to day, with acknowledging, that tho' I have been honour'd with three of yours of Nov. 29th, Jan. 17th, and March the 8th, from Mosco, I have never yet been able to make my acknowledgments for them, except by a very short answer to the two first, which deserv'd a very different return."

March 8, 1993

March 8, 1993
Date of letter mentioned in N----m's letter to the Lord High Treasurer dated April 5, 1993. "Notwithstanding the pleasure I have ever had in your Excellency's correspondence, I am in pain to begin it to day, with acknowledging, that tho' I have been honour'd with three of yours of Nov. 29th, Jan. 17th, and March the 8th, from Mosco, I have never yet been able to make my acknowledgments for them, except by a very short answer to the two first, which deserv'd a very different return."

April 5, 1993

April 5, 1993
Date of letter to the Lord High Treasurer from N----m. "Notwithstanding the pleasure I have ever had in your Excellency's correspondence, I am in pain to begin it to day, with acknowledging, that tho' I have been honour'd with three of yours of Nov. 29th, Jan. 17th, and March the 8th, from Mosco. I have never yet been able to make my acknowledgments for them, except by a very short answer to the two first, which deserv'd a very different return."

November 7, 1996
Date mentioned in letter to the Lord High Treasurer in letter from N----m dated February 2, 1997. "My Lord, I Am ashamed to acknowledge so late, that through a load of affairs of importunate People, that engross my time and thoughts, I have so long referred you to Mr. Secretary, and am but now returning my thanks for two of yours Excellency's Letters from Rome, one of November the seventh, and another of January the seventeenth, for both which I am indebted to your care and goodness, beyond all possibility of repaying you."

November 19, 1996

November 19, 1996
Date of letter mentioned in Clare's letter to the Lord High Treasurer, mentioned in letter dated March 8, 1997. "My Lord, Since mine of the 29th of November and 17th of January, I have receiv'd but one short one from your Lordship of the 26th of February, in which you acknowledge the receipt of mine, and are so good as to desire the continuance of my correspondence, and to express some satisfaction in the accounts I have hitherto had the happiness to send you."

November 29, 1996

November 29, 1996
Date mentioned in Clare's letter to the Lord High Treasurer dated January 27, 1997. "My Lord, I Have the Pleasure of your Command by Mr. Secretary of January the 3d, and am highly delighted that I have in some measure answer'd your Expectations by mine of the 29th of November last, and as I shall faithfully pursue my Instructions, and particularly the Hints in Cypher, so if any thing new arises, I shall use my best Diligence to give the earliest Intelligence, and in the mean time shall act as my present Lights shall direct me."

December 16, 1996

December 16, 1996
Date of Herbert's previous letter, mentioned in letter to the Lord High Treasurer dated February 8, 1997. "My Lord, My last from this place to your Lordship, was of December the sixteenth, and I have since, pursuant to your commands, given Mr. Secretary the trouble of two Letters, of the first and thirteenth of last Month. I now return, because you are pleased to have it so, to go on with the long account of Affairs here, since I have sufficiently answered all other particulars, relating to our Negotiations at this Court, in those two former ones."

January 1, 1997

January 1, 1997
Date of letter mentioned in letter to the Lord High Treasurer from Herbert dated February 8, 1997. "My Lord, My last from this place to your Lordship, was of December the sixteenth, and I have since, pursuant to your commands, given Mr. Secretary the trouble of two Letters, of the first and thirteenth of last Month. I now return, because you are pleased to have it so, to go on with the long account of Affairs here, since I have sufficiently answered all other particulars, relating to our Negotiations at this Court, in those two former ones."

January 3, 1997

January 3, 1997
Date mentioned in Clare's letter to the Lord High Treasurer dated January 27, 1997. "My Lord, I Have the Pleasure of your Command by Mr. Secretary of January the 3d, and am highly delighted that I have in some measure answer'd your Expectations by mine of the 29th of November last, and as I shall faithfully pursue my Instructions, and particularly the Hints in Cypher, so if any thing new arises, I shall use my best Diligence to give the earliest Intelligence, and in the mean time shall act as my present Lights shall direct me."

January 13, 1997
Date of letter mentioned in letter to the Lord High Treasurer from Herbert dated February 8, 1997. "My Lord, My last from this place to your Lordship, was of December the sixteenth, and I have since, pursuant to your commands, given Mr. Secretary the trouble of two Letters, of the first and thirteenth of last Month. I now return, because you are pleased to have it so, to go on with the long account of Affairs here, since I have sufficiently answered all other particulars, relating to our Negotiations at this Court, in those two former ones."

January 17, 1997
Date mentioned in letter to the Lord High Treasurer in letter from N----m dated February 2, 1997. "My Lord, I Am ashamed to acknowledge so late, that through a load of affairs of importunate People, that engross my time and thoughts, I have so long referred you to Mr. Secretary, and am but now returning my thanks for two of yours Excellency's Letters from Rome, one of November the seventh, and another of January the seventeenth, for both which I am indebted to your care and goodness, beyond all possibility of repaying you."

January 27, 1997
Date of letter to the Lord High Treasurer from Clare. "My Lord, I Have the Pleasure of your Command by Mr. Secretary of January the 3d, and am highly delighted that I have in some measure answer'd your Expectations by mine of the 29th of November last, and as I shall faithfully pursue my Instructions, and particularly the Hints in Cypher, so if any thing new arises, I shall use my best Diligence to give the earliest Intelligence, and in the mean time shall act as my present Lights shall direct me."

February 2, 1997
Date of letter to the Lord High Treasurer from N----m. "My Lord, I Am ashamed to acknowledge so late, that through a load of affairs of importunate People, that engross my time and thoughts, I have so long referred you to Mr. Secretary, and am but now returning my thanks for two of yours Excellency's Letters from Rome, one of November the seventh, and another of January the seventeenth, for both which I am indebted to your care and goodness, beyond all possibility of repaying you."

February 8, 1997
Date of letter to the Lord High Treasurer from Herbert. "My Lord, My last from this place to your Lordship, was of December the sixteenth, and I have since, pursuant to your commands, given Mr. Secretary the trouble of two Letters, of the first and thirteenth of last Month. I now return, because you are pleased to have it so, to go on with the long account of Affairs here, since I have sufficiently answered all other particulars, relating to our Negotiations at this Court, in those two former ones."

February 24, 1997

February 24, 1997
Date of letter mentioned in Herbert's letter to the Lord High Treasurer dated March 4, 1997. "My Lord, I Was honour'd with your Lordship's of February the 24th from London yesterday, which brought me new proofs, of that undeserved affection and regard, with which you have ever honour'd me."

February 25, 1997

February 25, 1997
Date of letter to the Lord High Treasurer from Philip Dormer Stanhope, the Earl of Chesterfield. "My Lord, I Can never sufficiently thank you for the pleasure I received from your Lordship's of Novemb. 29. from London Chelsea, and the agreeable accounts you gave me in it, that my little Services here are acceptable to his Majesty and your Lordship, and above all, that the King condescends to entertain himself with the imperfect accounts I am able to send from hence."

February 26, 1997

February 26, 1997
Date of letter mentioned in Clare's letter to the Lord High Treasurer, mentioned in letter dated March 8, 1997. "My Lord, Since mine of the 29th of November and 17th of January, I have receiv'd but one short one from your Lordship of the 26th of February, in which you acknowledge the receipt of mine, and are so good as to desire the continuance of my correspondence, and to express some satisfaction in the accounts I have hitherto had the happiness to send you."

February 28, 1997

February 28, 1997
Hertford writes a letter to the Lord High Treasurer on February 28, 1997: "My Lord, By the last Courier by the way of Lyons, I was made happy in the receipt of your Lordship's of the 2d instant, for which I return you my most sincere thanks, and as I hope I shall never forget the friendship and kindness you have express'd for me in it, so I shall make it the study of my life to deserve them more and more, by all the little services I am capable of rendring you and my royal Master."

March 4, 1997

March 4, 1997
Date of letter to the Lord High Treasurer from Herbert. "My Lord, I Was honour'd with your Lordship's of February the 24th from London yesterday, which brought me new proofs, of that undeserved affection and regard, with which you have ever honour'd me."

March 8, 1997

March 8, 1997
Date of letter to the Lord High Treasurer from Clare. "My Lord, Since mine of the 29th of November and 17th of January, I have receiv'd but one short one from your Lordship of the 26th of February, in which you acknowledge the receipt of mine, and are so good as to desire the continuance of my correspondence, and to express some satisfaction in the accounts I have hitherto had the happiness to send you."

November 3, 1997
Date of letter to the Lord High Treasurer from Philip Dormer Stanhope, the Earl of Chesterfield. "My Lord, I Have, according to the Commands your Lordship honour'd me with by Captain Milton, by the way of Vienna in September last, so far press'd the Conclusion of the Treaty grounded on the new Stipulations, that I think it is as good as finished, and that our Trade shall be as much favour'd here, as by his Majesty's Authority and Influence and your Lordship's Care, it has been in all other parts of the World."

November 7, 1997
Date of letter to the Lord High Treasurer from Hertford. "My Lord, Your second Express which followed close on the Heels of the first, found me here just settled in a most handsome and convenient House, assign'd by his Holiness a Day or two after my first Audience, on the 3d Instant, which past to my entire Satisfaction."

November 25, 1997

November 25, 1997
Date of Clare's previous letter to the Lord High Treasurer, mentioned in letter dated November 29, 1997. "My Lord, In my last of September 25, which carried my sincere Compliments on your happy Advancement, and being declar'd Prime Minister and Treasurer. I sent you the fullest Accounts I was able of the State of Things here, and the good Condition they stand in, by our last Treaty of Commerce."

November 29, 1997

November 29, 1997
Date of letter to the Lord High Treasurer from Clare. "My Lord, In my last of September 25, which carried my sincere Compliments on your happy Advancement, and being declar'd Prime Minister and Treasurer, I sent you the fullest Accounts I was able of the State of Things here, and the good Condition they stand in, by our last Treaty of Commerce."

December 16, 1997

December 16, 1997
Date of letter to the Lord High Treasurer from Herbert. "My Lord, Your last Dispatch of the 8th, found me just return'd from visiting our Sea-Ports, and their Garrisons in this Kingdom, all which I left in perfect good Order. The new Works at Calais to the Seaward, have much improv'd that Port, and in the lowest nepe Tides at Dunkirk, our Ships of War of forty Guns can go out and come in without any Hazard, the Benefit of which I need not mention to your Lordship."

December 19, 1997

December 19, 1997
Date of letter to the Lord High Treasurer from N - - m. "My Lord, I Had the Pleasure of your Dispatches, of Nov. 3d, some Days since, and am thus early in returning my Thanks, where I hold my self so much oblig'd, both for your Care of the Publick and of me."

January 7, 1998

January 7, 1998
Date of letter to the Lord High Treasurer from Hertford. "My Lord, By the last Courrier, my Dispatches carried you a full Account of the fair Prospect of Success I have for all my Negotiations here."

February 19, 1998

February 19, 1998
Date of letter mentioned in Stanhope's letter to the Lord High Treasurer dated May 1, 1998. "My Lord, Since I wrote to you the 29th of February, and the 16th of April, in return to yours of the 29th of November, I have never heard the least account from you, which is owing, I am sensible, to a want of ships sailing to this port, and no neglect or disregard of your friends, of whom your Lordship is but too observant and careful."

April 16, 1998

April 16, 1998
Date of letter to the Lord High Treasurer from Philip Dormer Stanhope, the Earl of Chesterfield. "My Lord, In my former Letters I believe I gave you a sufficient surfeit of my political observations on this great Empire, and its present Condition, Laws, and Customs, and I shall now furnish another kind of entertainment for you, if any thing I can send your Lordship can be justly called so. I shall chiefly confine myself at present to give you some imperfect accounts of my Telescope's performances, and of several conversations I have had on it, with the Grand Seignior in person, in those secret recesses of his retirement, the Apartments of the Seraglio, and the lovely Gardens with which it is almost surrounded, to the very Banks of the Sea."

May 1, 1998

May 1, 1998
Date of letter to the Lord High Treasurer from Philip Dormer Stanhope, the Earl of Chesterfield. "My Lord, Since I wrote to you the 29th of February, and the 16th of April, in return to yours of the 29th of November, I have never heard the least account from you, which is owing, I am sensible, to a want of ships sailing to this port, and no neglect or disregard of your friends, of whom your Lordship is but too observant and careful."

December 16, 1998

December 16, 1998
Date of letter mentioned in N----m's letter to the Lord High Treasurer, mentioned in letter dated February 24, 1999. "I Had the pleasure of receiving yours of December the 16th and February the 8th, and have now the shame of answering them together, but if your Excellency considers the multiplicity of affairs that have been on the carpet of late, and in which I have been more than ordinarily engag'd, you will not take it unkindly, if I am more dilatory in my answers, than my strong attachment to your noble family, and my personal regard and esteem for your merit and services, may justly demand from me."

February 8, 1999
Date of letter mentioned in N----m's letter to the Lord High Treasurer, mentioned in letter dated February 24, 1999. "I Had the pleasure of receiving yours of December the 16th and February the 8th, and have now the shame of answering them together, but if your Excellency considers the multiplicity of affairs that have been on the carpet of late, and in which I have been more than ordinarily engag'd, you will not take it unkindly, if I am more dilatory in my answers, than my strong attachment to your noble family, and my personal regard and esteem for your merit and services, may justly demand from me."

February 24, 1999