[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 13 April 1756:] 'I have been running about sadly since I wrote to you last, once at Oxford, twice at Richmond with Lady Grey, who is far from well. How dearly you would love her little girl! just turned of five, has no joy but in books, and of those will not read little idle stories such as were first given to her [...] her knowledge in geography and English history is astonishing; her present book is Dr Newton's Dissertations on the Prophecies, which she has almost by heart, and gives the most connected and rational account of it. With all this she is just such a romp as a child ought to be [...] and bating such little weeds of pride and passion as will shoot up spontaneously in every human soil, an exceeding good little heart.'