(264) Lady Caroline Howard was married to John Campbell, after first Lord Cawdor, on July 28, 1789.

(265) Henry Richard Vassall Fox, third Baron Holland (1773-1840).  The nephew of Charles Fox.  He was imbued by his uncle with liberal opinions, which he upheld throughout his life.  On the death of Fox in 1807 he became Lord Privy Seal in the Grenville Ministry.  In 1830 he was Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in the Reform Cabinet of Lord Grey.  It was he and his wife, whom he married in 1797, who gave to Holland House a world-wide celebrity as a gathering place of eminent people.  In Selwyn’s lifetime he was only a youth.

(1789,) September 3, Thursday, Richmond.—­I am vexed to find, by the letter which I have had the pleasure to receive to-day, that I am expected to be at C(astle) H(oward) on Saturday, when I do not set out till Sunday, so that, as I told Lord C. in my last, which he should receive to-day, I shall not be there till Wednesday.  I am dilatory and procrastinating in my nature, but am not apt to defer what, when done, will make me so happy as I shall be at C(astle) H., and should not have been so now, if I had been more early apprised of your wish to have our journey accelerated.

I am very glad that H.R.H. was pleased with C(astle) H(oward).  I am sure, that if he had not been so, he would have been difficile a contenter.  But yet, it is a doubt with me, if he and I are equally delighted with the same objects.  It is not that I expect others to love and admire your children as I do.  There is a great deal in the composition of that; but he might if he pleased have pleasures of the same nature, but he seems to have set so little value upon resources of that kind, that I am afraid we shall never see any of H.R.H.’s progeny, and that this country must live upon what is called the quick stock for some years to come.  I wish that it had happened that he had dined at Castle H. to-day, and have celebrated Caroline’s birthday, which Mie Mie and I shall do here in a less sumptuous manner.

I was yesterday morning at Mrs. Bacon’s door, nay further, for the servant said that she was at home, and I was carried into the parlour, but there it ended; Mrs. B. was dressing, and I could not see her, I left word with the servant that I was going into the North, where in a little time I should see Mr. Campbell,(266) and to receive her commands relative to him was the object of my visit.  I must now leave this place without having made any progress in her acquaintance, or in that of her niece.  All this you will, I know, put to Caroline’s account, and indeed you may, for the talk of her was the pleasure which I had promised myself by both these visits.