Lady Shelburne et al. in Bowood House, Wiltshire - between late September, 1781 and early October, 1781, 12:00 AM
from Letter from Jeremy Bentham to his father, Jeremiah Bentham, 30 September–2 October 1781, page 99:
After dinner, while the gentlemen are still at their bottle, I steal away to the library where I meet Lady Shelburne and wait on her to her dressingroom: there we have music of some kind or other, unless there happen to be ladies in the house who are not musically disposed.
cite as
Jeremy Bentham, Letter from Jeremy Bentham to his father, Jeremiah Bentham, 30 September–2 October 1781. In Ian R. Christie (ed.), The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Vol. 3, January 1781–October 1788, volume 3 (London, 2017), p. 99. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1515502572021 accessed: 8 November, 2024
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Experience Information
| Date/Time | between late September, 1781 and early October, 1781, 12:00 AM |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors |
Originally submitted by lcc5 on Tue, 09 Jan 2018 12:56:12 +0000
Approved on Thu, 11 Jan 2018 15:33:09 +0000