[253] Ib. 4. 137.
[254] Correspondence of Mrs. Delany 3. 40.
[255] Ib. 5. 523.
[256] Hannah More writes: ‘Tuesday I was at Mrs. Vesey’s assembly which was too full to be very pleasant. She dearly loves company; and as she is connected with almost everything that is great in the good sense of the word, she is always sure to have too much.’ Roberts’s Memoirs 1. 278; 29 March 1783.
[257] Diary of Madame D’Arblay 2. 214; 19 June 1783.
[258] Letters 11. 170.
[259] ‘Madam, I have read his book, and I have nothing to say to him.’ Series of Letters 3. 228 note; Johnsonian Miscellanies 2. 12 note.
[260] Series of Letters 3. 255; 21 May 1765.
[261] ‘She seemed rather desirous to assemble persons of celebrity and talents under her roof or at her table than assumed or pretended to form one of the number herself.’ Wraxall’s Historical Memoirs 1. 103. ‘Without attempting to shine herself she had the happy secret of bringing forward talents of every kind, and of diffusing over the society the gentleness of her own character.’ Forbes’s Life of Beattie 1. 209 n.
[262] Letters of Mrs. Carter to Mrs. Montagu 1. 271 and A Series of Letters 3. 292.