Horace Walpole and His World: Select Passages from His Letters
CHAPTER VII.
The American War--Irish Discontent--Want of Money--The Houghton Pictures sold--Removal to Berkeley Square--Ill-health--A Painting by Zoffani--The Rage for News--The Duke of Gloucester--Wilkes--Fashions, Old and New--Mackerel News--Pretty Stories--Madame de Sévigné’s Cabinet--Picture of his Waldegrave Nieces--The Gordon Riots--Death of Madame du Deffand--The Blue Stockings 151