1822 — July 16th, 1822
Since I wrote last I have been continually in town. I have won on the Derby, my sister is married,8 and DEATH OF LORD LONDONDERRY. I have done nothing worth recording. How habit and practice change our feelings, our opinions; and what an influence they have upon our thoughts and actions! Objects which I used to contemplate at an immeasurable distance, and to attain which I thought would be the summit of felicity, I have found worth very little in comparison to the value my imagination used to set upon them.... London is nearly over, has been tolerably agreeable; but I have been very often bored to death by the necessity of paying some attention to keep up an interest.
Notes
8 [Miss Greville married Lord Francis Leveson Gower, afterwards Earl of Ellesmere, in 1822.]