of course, she was a woman who was supposedly divorced by annulment of napoleon. and she didn't invest so much in stocks and shares. her thing was property. and she built up an enormous portfolio of properties. be but she, when she was in europe, she would get her aunt, an unmarried aunt over here to do more or less the same thing for her. so this is very much a transatlantic thing in certain circles. and this was what set me out to write the book. and i, and i think that perhaps this has been missed in the past because of the way women wrote their letters. i mean, you know, they at no time just write a business letter. so bess' letter in the archives at this city bank was not just about the investments. it was interweaved with comments about, you know, what was she going to wear to court that day and, ooh, who was going to be at the ball the next -- oh, and do tell me about the chilean bonds. do you think we should buy some more? oh, and i hear mrs. wellesley's had a new baby. and, so for people reading letters quite quickly, they could miss these little nuggets