Joseph Hayes et al. in Farnborough - 1 January, 1778, at night
from Diary of John Yeoman, 1 January 1778, page 53:
Went to Willmot Esq., as I found that he makes a General Feast on Every New Years Day […] We was had into the Sarvents Hall, Where was I suppose was near to fifty people Drinking, Singing & Smoking, and all Joval together. So I under Stood that there was Some Ladys in the … more >>
John Yeoman, Diary of John Yeoman, 1 January 1778. In Macleod Yearsley (ed.), The Diary of the Visits of John Yeoman to London in the Years 1774 and 1777 (London, December, 1934), p. 53. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1543496051600 accessed: 19 April, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
hide composers| singing | performed by servants |
| songs and violin music | performed by John Yeoman, Joseph Hayes |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | 1 January, 1778, at night |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors |
Notes
Yeoman has travelled in company with Joseph Hayes to visit a relation of Hayes, a potter called Allen Mason. Yeoman was to marry Hayes’s daughter, Mary, in 1779. All spelling and punctuation copied from the original.