10 Mar 1794: Edward James Eliot to Mrs. Stapleton

[In a later hand (spidery, as if written by an aged person), written in faded ink: ‘March 10, 1794']

My Dear Mrs Stapleton

You will probably see in the papers the accounts of the success of the troops we have landed in Corsica; they are not altogether authentic, but nevertheless are credited. I think there is no other news. Mr [William] Pitt [the younger] Thank God continues perfectly well. He slept Saturday and Sunday night at Wimbledon, and is come to town this morning prepared for as tedious and long a law debate this evening, as has been often known.

I remain
My D[ea]r Madam
your affect[ionate] H[umble] Serv[an]t
Ed J Eliot

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To Mrs Stapleton
Countess Dowager of Chatham
Burton Pynsent
Somerton

Ed J Eliot
London
March ye Tenth 1794

*Original letter is part of the Eliot collection at the Cornwall Record Office.
Catalog reference: EL/B/4/3/3