Colonel Keene et al. in Ditton Park, nr. Slough - 24 July, 1781, at night
from Letter from Horace Walpole to the Countess of Upper Ossory, 25 July 1781, pages 30–31:
Poor human nature, what a contradiction it is! to-day it is all rheumatism and morality, and sits with a death’s head before it: to-morrow it is dancing! […]
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Fourth Earl of Orford, Letter from Horace Walpole to the Countess of Upper Ossory, 25 July 1781. In Mrs. Paget Toynbee (ed.), The Letters of Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford, volume 12 (Oxford, 1904), p. 30–31. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1534782175144 accessed: 12 October, 2024
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Date/Time | 24 July, 1781, at night |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors |
Originally submitted by lcc5 on Mon, 20 Aug 2018 17:22:57 +0100
Approved on Thu, 30 Aug 2018 13:37:35 +0100