Quote#Hope
I wish it was in my power to keep touch with you all, but when I came…
Quote byHenry Pelham · 1694–1754
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to Robert Trevor (8-19 November 1745), quoted in Historical Manuscripts Commission, The Manuscripts of the Earl of Buckinghamshire, the Earl of Lindsey, the Earl of Onslow, Lord Emly, Theodore J. Hare, esq., and James Round, esq. (1895), p. 133.
English (original)
I wish it was in my power to keep touch with you all, but when I came into the Treasury I found a vast arrear and the expenses have increased, and the revenue diminished ever since, this I hope will plead my excuse.
— Henry Pelham
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