2nd Baronet Lemon et al. in Bowood House, Derry Hill, Wiltshire - late December, 1818
from Diary of Thomas Moore, 29 December 1818, pages 244–245:
[David] Macdonald called upon me to go to dinner at Bowood; obliged to feel our way, not very safely, through the fog. Company at dinner: Lemon and Lady Charlotte (Lady L.'s sister), Dickinson, an M. P.; Abercrombie, Macdonald's brother, Sir James Mackintosh, and Charles Fox. Sat between Mackintosh and Lord L[ansdowne]. […] Music in the evening; all but Mackintosh and the elder [William] Macdonald attentive. They talked the whole time: I did not mind Macdonald; but I was sorry for Mackintosh. I said, when I got up from singing, “I see those two gentlemen like … more >>
Thomas Moore, Diary of Thomas Moore, 29 December 1818. In Lord John Russell and Lord John Russell (ed.), Memoirs, Journal and Correspondence of Thomas Moore, volume 2 (London, 1853), p. 244–245. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1593949167410 accessed: 21 November, 2024
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| Date/Time | late December, 1818 |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors |