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Title: Side lights on English history;
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Henderson, Ernest F. (Ernest Flagg), 1861-1928
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Publisher: London : G. Bell and sons New York, H. Holt and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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eded, and in spiteof all the fine things your newspaperstell you, it seems to me every thing isgoing from bad to worse. As for me,I am a woman and love to flatter my-self and I hope that the worst of mat-ters will turn out to the advantage ofthe family. I accept your comparisonwith Qiieen Elizabeth, although it doesme too much honor, as of good au-gury. Her right was disputed by ajealous and ill-humored sister and shewas never sure of it until she came tothe throne. Tlie Lllectress Sophia to Leibnitz.Hanover, Feb. 29, 1714.. . . The romance of the Princess-Eleanor has at last ended with marriageand will have a fine place, as he tellsme, in the Duke of Brunswicks novel,at which he is still working so as tofinish it before his death. As formine, it would be more glorious if,according to your wishes, my bonesmight be interred at Westminster.. . . All this talk of the successionve.xes and annoys me. So many booksare written for or against that I donttake the trouble to look at them. . . .
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w. ry^/ t:i-^ Viro Nobilil?>i.no l0AN>4 1 WAlL R AVKN. Nccmriimt Ekctori,JBruniV.conrt, ,t Litnel.Mrgenii. Coniili^xo ^J^i-^^J^^^^^^^^^^j^/r/Jr^Sij^i^v^ The Hanoverian Succession 235 March y.. . . Qiieen Anne is splendidlywell. She will have to hurry up amidie if I am to be queen as you desire. Leibnitz to tJic Elect r ess SopJtia. April 7, I 714.... If Mr. Ilarley is delayed bythe weight of the chests of silver he isbringing to enable your Electoral High-ness to have a fine English court, asthey say he is in the papers, we willpardon him his slowness. ... If hemerely comes to preach to us that theProtestant succession is in no dangerhe might have kept his arguments forthe Coffee-houses of London. TJie Electi-ess to Leibnitz.Hanover, May 20th, 1714.. . . Mr. Harleys mission con-sisted only in letters of the Qiieen andmy Lord of Oxford who say very posi-tively that her Majesty is altogether infavor of furthering the Protestant re-ligion by the succession in our house—this in th

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