To Mary Berry (1795) [ Practices ]
… inundation of people, as I feared, chiefly Hampton courtiers and its excrescences, Dutch and French. There was a little music, and Miss Broadie sung and played, and so did another, a man, and there was a large supper, at which I left them. … of the formality and cribbage, and formality again! T'other night there was an Irish miss, who is thought a prodigy in music ; and indeed she did belabour the harpsichord as if it had no more feeling than a kettledrum. I sent the Udneys …
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