Stowe, Buckinghamshire

"The Ladies Temple is also finished, with which I cannot say we are much delighted. In the view of it is lately erected a naval pillar in honour of Captain Grenville, on the Top stands a figure of Neptune with a splinter of the ship in his hands, and on the base of the pillar is inscribed in great encomiums on this unfortunate young man."

"That side of the Garden first finish'd is so Crowded with Buildings that as you see them at a distance seem almost at Top of One Another that each loses its Effect. They are all small and trifling or clumsy, and are all dirty and decaying already."

"I went to my Lady Cobham yesterday and she began in a violent manner about the Sheep being put into the garden. I told her they look'd mighty pretty and everybody said it wou'd make the turf much firmer, but if they did harm they would be taken out I suppos'd ..."