| Description | letters written by Barbara Pleydell-Bouverie (1783-1798) to her brothers, Lawrence, Frederick and Philip, containing the substance of letters written to his parents by William, Viscount Folkestone, later 3rd Earl of Radnor (1779-1869) on his travels to North Germany, including Cuxhaven, Hamburg, Hanover, Brunswick and Berlin. He describes the states of Hanover and Prussia in social terms - the love of playing billiards and cassino, as well as young ladies dancing the waltz - and political terms, writing of the French emigree court at Blankenburg, and giving thumbnail portraits of the royal families of Hanover, Brunswick and Prussia, being in Berlin when King William II died; he describes the funeral |