“Dear Mrs. Edwards,—I thank you for sending the important papers. I have taken care to have what you told me conveyed to the Princess of Wales. Perhaps, in a few days, I shall see her. I dine with a grand party to-morrow. How would you rejoice to see the picture for which I am sitting at this very moment! It is a half-length; and is admired by dukes, archbishops, bishops, lords, and ladies. To-morrow it is to be inspected by some of the royal family. The frame is grand, like those at Guy’s Cliff.—Farewell!—To be sure, after all my fine doings here, I shall be quite stupid in the company of borough-babblers and country bumpkins. Oh! what would you give to ex-
1 New Monthly Mag. July, 1806. |
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