[QUEEN CAROLINE AFFAIR] Fairburn's genuine edition of the death-bed confessions of the late Countess of Guernsey, to Lady Anne H*******

: developing a series of mysterious transactions connected with the most illustrious personages in the kingdom. To which are added the Q----'s last letter to the K---, written a few days before her M------'s death, and other authentic documents, never before published. London : Printed and published by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill, 1821. First edition (?). Octavo (225 mm), stitched as issued; pp. [3] iv, [1] 2-48, [4 publishers' advertisements]; uncut; title-page and verso of the last leaf a little darkened and with a few minor stains, contents with occasional light foxing; a good copy of what appears to be the first edition of this pamphlet on The Queen Caroline Affair. [WITH AN ASSOCIATED MANUSCRIPT LETTER ENCLOSED] Letter addressed to The Honourable Miss Louisa Wrottesley, Knoyle, Carteret, Salisbury, from Louisa Grey, dated at London, 7 August 1826; FREE strike in red; contains the last part only of Louisa Grey's manuscript letter to Lady Wrottesley, the enclosed sheet(s) with the first part of the missal now lost; original folds, remnants of black wax seal. Louisa Wrottesley (1780-1842) served as a maid of honour to Queen Caroline and later Queen Charlotte. She was the daughter of Maj. Gen. Sir John Wrottesley (1744-1787) and Frances Courteney (1746-1828). Her siblings were: 1. Sir John Wrottesley 1771 - 1841 2. Henry Wrottesley 1772 - 1825 3. Frances (Fanny) Wrottesley 1773 - 1814 4. Caroline Gertrude Wrottesley1775 - 1777 5. Charlotte Wrottesley 1779 - post 1826 6. Lt. Col. Hugh Wrottesley 1782 - 1830 7. Rev. Charles Wrottesley 1783 - 1848 8. Cmdr. Edward Wrottesley 1785 - 1814 We believe the author of this letter was Louisa Grey (d. 1830), a daughter of George Grey, 5th Earl of Stamford. The Wrottesley and Grey families were related by marriage. The final part of Louisa Grey's letter to Louisa Wrottesley reads: '... who she had had very much with - the Eldest Brother take the Children directly to his House & has promised to be very kind to Mr Charles & she is not married, a Clergyman's widow is generally left in miserable circumstances. Dr Bromley & Elizabeth Casson dined here yesterday. They leave here for Lord Sherborne's tomorrow. Believe me dear Louisa, Very Sincerely Yours, Louisa Grey.'