Fourth Earl of Orford in Strawberry Hill House, Twickenham - 21 August, 1795, in the morning
from Letter from Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 22 August 1795, page 353:
Yesterday, just as I had breakfasted in my closet where your bust is, I saw the Kingston Fencibles pass by on the river. They were standing in rows on a high platform in a western barge, with colours and music. They saluted my castle with three guns […]
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Horace Walpole, Letter from Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 22 August 1795. In Mrs. Paget Toynbee (ed.), The Letters of Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford, volume 15 (Oxford, 1905), p. 353. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1535024214620 accessed: 27 December, 2024
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hide composers| Military music | performed by The Kingston Fencibles |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | 21 August, 1795, in the morning |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in private, indoors, solitary |
Originally submitted by lcc5 on Thu, 23 Aug 2018 12:36:56 +0100
Approved on Thu, 30 Aug 2018 15:44:13 +0100