| [19] | He is generally called “Count.” But in her letters, diary, and Memoirs, Fanny styles him “Prince.” |
| [20] | Early Diary, 1889, ii. 121. |
| [21] | Memoirs of the Margravine of Anspach, 1826, ii. 125. |
| [22] | Dr. Burney evidently had mild qualms about these Sunday concerts. When after the first occasion here referred to, Dr. King and Dr. Ogle supped at St. Martin’s Street, he said that he hoped for absolution from them if there was any crime in having music on a Sunday. To which Dr. Ogle replied discreetly that music was an excellent thing any and every day; and Dr. King evasively—“Have we not music at church?” |
| [23] | The second volume appeared in 1782, and the third and fourth volumes, completing the work, in 1789. |
| [24] | In September, 1785, Miss Sally Payne married Captain James Burney, Fanny’s brother. |
| [25] | Early Diary, 1889, ii. 153; Birkbeck Hill’s Johnson’s Letters, 1892, ii. 5, and note. |
| [26] | The editor of the Early Diary “strongly suspects” that these words in the altered ms. were originally “dirty fists.” There are other indications that later corrections have somewhat modified the portrait. |
| [27] | The Bach referred to was Bach’s son, John Christian Bach, or (as he was called) “English” Bach. He was a famous harpsichord player, who, with Abel of the viol de gamba, conducted Mrs. Cornelys’ concerts in Soho Square. |
| [28] | See ante, pp. 38-40. |