Description:Many of the letters amongst Sir William’s personal papers are from his wife, Lady Jane Granville, daughter of the 1st Earl of Bath (d.1696). Following their marriage in 1669, these letters relate personal and family matters. In one undated letter (written before 1689)Lady Jane writes to her husband ‘my cosen Tom dessiress you to buy him a…silver sword’. In another letter Lady Jane comments on the health of her family, writing ‘I am very glad to heare of my Brothers recoverie & am also sory for my cosen[s] indispostion’.
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