… politics featured prominently. More enjoyed these social occasions and wrote: ‘ I dined at the Adelphi yesterday (at a meeting where) none but men are usually asked. I was however of the party, and an agreeable day it was to me. I have … c. 48, ff. 52-53) 8 8 . (https://www.18thcenturycommon.org/letters-hannah-digital-edition/). Similarly, the Bible meetings held at Barley Wood were followed by ‘a cold dinner for the select part of the company ‘ . 9 Most of the …
… 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 deal with because …
… Travelling on honeymoon with her Italian husband, Gabriele Piozzi, from 1784 to 1787, Hester Lynch Piozzi described meeting and conversing with a variety of salonniers in Florence, Rome and Venice. 10 Lady Fremantle (nee Wynne) was r …