Briefwisseling en aantekeningen. Deel 1

CCLXVIII.
Willem Bentinck aan de gravin van Portland.

[B.M., Eg. 1714.]

Den Haag, 7 Januari 1748.

......I am entirely persuaded that the person who acts friendly hates me mortally. And it cannot be otherwise considering her way of thinking which I have such proofs of as would surprise you, notwithstanding the opinion you already have¹⁾......

1) De zin wordt verklaard door de aanteekening achterop in de hand van de gravin: ‘The unfriendly behaviour of the P(rincess) R(oyal).’