Diary of Mary Berry, 23 March 1808

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In the evening, a large party at home. Gow, the Scotch fiddler, a second fiddle, and a harp, came to us at half-past nine, and played some Scotch airs to my father. Afterwards, when more people came, I proposed a reel to Lady Charlotte Campbell, and began with her myself, to set the others a-going, and then, in the same way, a country dance; but the English people, as usual, were shy, though there were four or five excellent couples standing by. Fifty people—nineteen women and thirty-one men—came; twelve supped in the back room, and six or eight in the front room; everybody seemed pleased, and some men who came late were not gone at two o'clock in the morning. Gow's music cost me three guineas.

excerpt from 'Diary of Mary Berry, 23 March 1808' pp. 343-344 (128 words)

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