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[ Mary Bruce Strange, daughter of Sir Robert Strange, the celebrated engraver. She died, as Fanny tells us, on the same day with Dr. Johnson, December 13, 1784, aged thirty-five. The Stranges were old and very intimate friends of the Burneys—ED.]
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[ Her brother—ED.]
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[ “Memoirs of Dr. Burney,” vol. iii. p. 87. Fanny had, however, to assist in dressing the queen. See postea, P—345.]
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[ The death of the Duchess dowager of Portland.]
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[ Miss Planta was English teacher to the two eldest princesses.—ED.]