Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 8 August 1807, on her nephew and nieces' progress in education: 'George's reading goes on prosperously and Georgiana is the quickest little creature that ever was met with, but Caroline remains on my knee sometimes (to the credit of the patience of both aunt and niece) with b a, b e, before us, till I hardly know them better than she does, and my sister, who is a great instructress, must have great talents for teaching if she makes anything of her.'