The salon and English letters

by Chauncey Brewster Tinker

[172] Boswell’s Life 5. 395; here the word levee is probably loosely employed for a morning conversazione.

[173] Citizen of the World, Letter 104.

[174] Cf. Boswell’s Life of Johnson 2. 318.

[175] Diary of Mme. D’Arblay 5. 80-81.

[176] Letters (1770) 1. 7; 8 April 1750.

[177] Letters 8. 437.

[178] Roberts’ Memoirs of More 1. 395.

[179] Correspondence of Mrs. Delany 6. 229; 7 September 1784.

[180] Diary for 10 May 1773; M. Forbes’ Life of Beattie, p. 75.

[181] Hannah More’s piquant description of an assembly is worth quoting in full: