Catherine Talbot in London - December, 1751, at night
from Journal of Catherine Talbot: correspondence, journals and verses 1735 – 1769, pages fol.41v:
It was at A:s Concert. Soft Musick in a Noble Room where it seem'd every bodys business to appear the best they could, disposes one (till recollection sets it right) to see this World[,] its Vanities & Pleasures in too Considerable a Light, & to think that being Nobody in it is an Evil. I know it is not. Well, I sat & chatted easily & Cheerfully with every body that came in my way & came away in excellent Spirits. Why shd I not? My Dear M was with me, in Health, able to bear the late… more >>
Catherine Talbot, Journal of Catherine Talbot: correspondence, journals and verses 1735 – 1769. In The British Library, number Add MS 4669, p. fol.41v. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1674999615073 accessed: 5 December, 2024
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Experience Information
Date/Time | December, 1751, at night |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Notes
Journal entry by Catherine Talbot dated 18 December 1751. Original spellings, punctuation and capitalisation retained.