Thomas Twining - 1800
from Thomas Twining to Richard Twining, Passenham, 20 August 1800, page 563:
Music after breakfast till about one; bathing (quant a moi) & dressing till dinner (3 o’clock); sleeping after dinner till tea time; then music (at home or abroad) till supper, &c. We are such a musical party as I have, I think I may say, never enjoyed before in my life...
The party consists of Mr. Tindal, Mr. Hague from Cambridge (a delightful violinist) & Mr. Wm. Hey, a nephew of the Doctor’s, son to Mr. Hey of Leeds, a very good surgeon himself, & one of the most pleasant & interesting young men I ever met with, strikingly like Richard Hey. We have been twice at Wicken Park: one … more >>
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Thomas Twining, Thomas Twining to Richard Twining, Passenham, 20 August 1800. In Thomas Twining, and Ralph S. Walker (ed.), A selection of Thomas Twining's letters 1734-1804 : the record of a tranquil life, volume 1 (Lewiston, New York, 1991), p. 563. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1393601485467 accessed: 10 November, 2024
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Date/Time | 1800 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors |
Originally submitted by David Rowland on Fri, 28 Feb 2014 15:31:25 +0000