Stanhope, Lady Hester


To Lady Olivia Sparrow, 1826 (incomplete)

You have probably seen our extraordinary pleasant friend since his Visit to Mount Lebanon where he had erected a large house for Missionaries and Travellers and furnished with every convenience but it was scarcely furnished when the Pope and the Turk pulled it down!!* I dare say he has told You /of/ his visit to Lady Hester Stanhope, &c