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DRURY LANE
VOL. II.
LONDON: PRINTED BY
SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE
AND PARLIAMENT STREET
IN AND ABOUT
DRURY LANE
AND OTHER PAPERS
REPRINTED FROM THE PAGES OF THE ‘TEMPLE BAR’ MAGAZINE
BY
DR DORAN
AUTHOR OF ‘TABLE TRAITS AND SOMETHING ON THEM’ ‘JACOBITE LONDON’
‘QUEENS OF ENGLAND OF THE HOUSE OF HANOVER’
IN TWO VOLUMES
VOL. II.
LONDON
RICHARD BENTLEY & SON, NEW BURLINGTON STREET
Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen
1881
All rights reserved
CONTENTS
OF
THE SECOND VOLUME.
| PAGE | |
| Life in the Nineteenth Century | 1 |
| The Postman’s Knock | 26 |
| The Twenty-thousand-pound Widow | 53 |
| To Brighton and back again | 78 |
| On some Clubs, and their ends | 105 |
| Through the Parks | 134 |
| Some Scotswomen | 160 |
| The Dibdins | 190 |
| Horatio Nelson and Emma Hamilton | 222 |
| Edward Wortley Montagu | 285 |
| Royal and Imperial Jokers | 327 |
LIFE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
But for Pepys and Evelyn we should know but little of the social lifeof the seventeenth century. A host of letter writers—Walpole, Mrs.Delany, and Mrs. Montagu, at the head of them—may be said to havephotographed the next century for us. Lord Malmesbury, Lord Auckland,and some others succeeded; and now we are beginning to have revelationsexclusively of the first years of the nineteenth century. The mostimportant contributor to our knowledge in this respect is the late SirGeo