Greatworth

If I hear that you are at Greatworth, that is, if you will disclose your motions to me for the first fortnight of that month, I will try if I cannot make it in my road either going or coming.

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 Horace Walpole 1757

I can know no news here but by rebound; and yet, though they are to rebound again to you, they will be as fresh as any you can have at Greatworth.

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3 Horace Walpole 1757

Greatworth, in Northamptonshire, nor have met with any Montagu or

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3 Horace Walpole 1757

You cannot pack up yourself, and all you will want, at Greatworth.

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3 Horace Walpole 1757

I have received your letter from Greatworth since your return, but I do not find that you have got one, which I sent you to the

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3 Horace Walpole 1757

I was disappointed at your not being at home as I returned from my expedition; and now I fear it must be another year before I see Greatworth, as I have two or three more engagements on my books for the residue of this season.

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3 Horace Walpole 1757

As Mountain-George will not come to Mahomet-me, Mahomet-I Must come to Greatworth.

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3 Horace Walpole 1757

It rained, as it did at Greatworth on Wednesday, all night and all next morning, so we could not look even at the outside of Burleigh; but we saw the inside pleasantly; for Lord Exeter, whom I had prepared for our intentions, came to us, and made every door and every lock fly open, even of his magazines, yet unranged.

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3 Horace Walpole 1757

However, not knowing the exact day of your departure, I direct this to Greatworth, that it may rather wait for you, than you for it, if it should go into Cheshire and not find you there.

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3 Horace Walpole 1757

I do not wish you to parade your rubicundity and gray hairs through the mobs and assemblies of London; I should think you bestowed them as ill as on Greatworth; but you might find a few rational creatures here, who are heartily tired of what are called our pleasures, and who would be glad to have you in their chimney-corner.

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3 Horace Walpole 1757