(12) Woburn.

(13) James Crawford of Auchinames, Renfrewshire.  He belonged to the group of fashionable young men who frequented the clubs and played heavily.  He was a Member of Parliament.  In 1769 he accompanied Charles Fox abroad, and the following year visited Voltaire at Ferney.  He was a correspondent of David Hume and of Mme. du Deffand, who always referred to him affectionately as “Mon petit Crauford”; in a letter in which she urges her desire that he should become more intimate with Horace Walpole, she writes, “Vous etes melancholique, et lui est gai; tout l’amuse et tout vous ennuie.”  Crawford was called the Fish at Eton, a name which clung to him throughout life.  He had wit and vivacity, but the reputation of being affected, insincere, and jealous.  Much of his life was passed abroad.  He died in London in 1814.

(14) Raton was a present from Lady Coventry, and Selwyn was much attached to him.  Sir Joshua Reynolds introduced him in his portrait of Selwyn and Lord Carlisle which is at Castle Howard.

(15) The Order of the Thistle had just been conferred on Carlisle.

(16) Isabella, Countess of Carlisle (1721-1795); daughter of fourth Lord Byron.  In 1743 she became the second wife of the fourth Earl of Carlisle, who died in 1758, and was the mother of the fifth Earl.  In 1759 she married Sir William Musgrave.

(17) Sir William Musgrave (died 1800), of Hayton Castle, Cumberland.  Commissioner of Customs and a well-known personage in London Society.  He was Vice-President of the Royal Society, and filled many useful offices.

(18) Henry Fox, first Baron Holland (1705-1774); Secretary for War, 1746; Secretary of State, 1735 Paymaster General, 1757; Leader of the House of Commons, 1762; created Baron Holland, 1763.  He had at this time gone abroad for his health.

(19) Lady Holland (1723-1774); eldest daughter of Charles, second Duke of Richmond.  Her runaway marriage to Lord Holland, then Mr. Fox, which, however, proved very happy, created much talk at the time.

(20) Francis Seymour (1743-1822); son of Francis, Earl of Hertford, afterwards second Marquis of Hertford.

(21) Lady Diana Bolingbroke (1734-1808); eldest daughter of second Duke of Marlborough; sister to Lady Pembroke.  She was celebrated for her high character, beauty, and accomplishments.  Two days after her unhappy marriage with Lord Bolingbroke was dissolved she married Topham Beauclerk.

1768, Jan. 5, Tuesday morning, Chesterfield Street.—­Many and many happy new years to you, some of which I hope to have the pleasure of being a witness of.  When I came to town yesterday from Gloucestershire, I received, to my surprise and great satisfaction, your letter of the 16th of last month, for this is now the second which I have had within a week beyond my expectation.

My answer to the first is now on the road to you, and will, I hope, reach you some time next week.  I don’t recollect in any which I have wrote that there was any expression of formality, which you seem to have observed, and which I certainly did not intend, because I know it would not be acceptable to you; and therefore don’t interpret that to be formality, which can be nothing but that respect, which no degree of familiarity can ever make me lose in my commerce with you.