William Gilpin and picturesque unsociability [ Art and Literature ]
… When his grand-children visited him, he kept to his study. 3 With his friends, he preferred epistolary exchanges to conversation as his son William explained bluntly in an unpublished note kept at the Bodelian library: Some of my … have been in running from one levee to another. ( Mary Granville 91-92) The unsociable correspondent preferred written conversation to meetings. In an 1801 letter, he explained how he managed to cope with the afflux of visitors he had to …
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