The salon and English letters

by Chauncey Brewster Tinker

[105] Ib. 3. 77.

[106] Ib. 2. 373; cf. 3. 203. ‘Toute espèce de lecture m’ennuie.’

[107] Edited by Mrs. Paget Toynbee, London, 1912. There are 838 letters.

[108] Lettres à Walpole 1. 167; 14 November 1766.

[109] Letters 9. 249; 8 September 1775.

[110] ‘If possible she is more worth visiting than ever; and so far am I from being ashamed of coming hither at my age, that I look on myself as wiser than one of the Magi, when I travel to adore this star in the East. The star and I went to the Opera last night, and when we came from Madame de la Vallière’s, at one in the morning, it wanted to drive about the town, because it was too early to set.... You nurse a little girl of four years old, and I rake with an old woman of fourscore!’ Letters 9. 256; to Selwyn, 16 September 1775.

[111] Lettres à Walpole 2. 476.

[112] Ib. 2. 484.

[113] Ib. 2. 479; ‘Il y a des gens ici qui l’appellent Junius.’

[114] J. Morley, Burke, p. 67.