William Pitt the Younger Quote
Lord North will, I hope, in a very little time make room for me in Downing Street, which is the best summer Town House possible.
To his mother, two weeks after his appointment as Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1782
16 July 1782. As reported in: No. 10 Downing Street, 1660-1900 (Hutchinson, 1957)
