Horace Walpole and His World: Select Passages from His Letters
CHAPTER IX.
Lady Correspondents--Madame de Genlis--Miss Burney and Hannah More--Deaths of Mrs. Clive and Sir Horace Mann--Story of Madame de Choiseul--Richmond--Queensberry House--Warren Hastings--Genteel Comedy--St. Swithin--Riverside Conceits--Lord North--The Theatre again--Gibbon’s History--Sheridan--Conway’s comedy--A Turkish War--Society Newspapers--The Misses Berry--Bonner’s Ghost--The Arabian Nights--King’s College Chapel--Richmond Society--New Arrivals--The Berrys visit Italy--A Farewell Letter 221