Horace Walpole and His World: Select Passages from His Letters
CHAPTER IV.
General Taste for Pleasure--Entertainments at Twickenham and Esher--Miss Chudleigh’s Ball--Masquerade at Richmond House--The Gallery at Strawberry Hill--Balls--The Duchess of Queensberry--Petition of the Periwig-makers--Ladies’ Head-gear--Almack’s--“The Castle of Otranto”--Plans for a Bower--A late Dinner--Walpole’s Idle Life--Social Usages 78