The salon and English letters

by Chauncey Brewster Tinker

[233] Correspondence of Mrs. Delany 5. 165.

[234] Diary of Madame D’Arblay 1. 460.

[235] Letters 2. 149; 1 May 1780.

[236] A Later Pepys 1. 404.

[237] Correspondence of Mrs. Delany 4. 204-205.

[238] Home’s Lady Louisa Stuart, p. 158.

[239] The letter is undated, but, as it refers to the death of Lord Bath, it must be later than 1764. Burke is strangely criticised for ‘an intemperate vivacity of genius’; the common charge is made against Garrick that he is himself only on the stage, ‘and an actor everywhere else.’ Johnson is not mentioned. The palm is given to Lord Chatham among living wits. Lyttelton’s Letters (1780), pp. 122 ff.

[240] Letters 11. 366 and 368; 9 and 14 January 1781.

[241] Roberts, Memoirs of More 1. 298.

[242] Carter, Series of Letters 4. 141.