CHAPTER IX.

Occupations and Correspondence.--Literary Work.--Jephson and the Stage.--_Nature will Prevail._--Issues from the Strawberry Press.--Fourth Volume of the _Anecdotes of Painting_.--The Beauclerk Tower and Lady Di.--George, third Earl of Orford.--Sale of the Houghton Pictures.--Moves to Berkeley Square.--Last Visit to Madame du Deffand.--Her Death.--Themes for Letters.--Death of Sir Horace Mann.--Pinkerton, Madame de Genlis, Miss Burney, Hannah More.--Mary and Agnes Berry.--Their Residence at Twickenham.--Becomes fourth Earl of Orford.--_Epitaphium vivi Auctoris._--The Berrys again.--Death of Marshal Conway.--Last Letter to Lady Ossory.--Dies at Berkeley Square, 2 March, 1797.--His Fortune and Will.--The Fate of Strawberry. 232