COLL P 01 05 009
Reference code
COLL P 01 05 009
Title
Provost Goodall: Letter to William Goodall
Level
Item
Date
11 April 1798 - 14 April 1798
Extent & medium
1 item
Content description
Advises his brother that he must simplify with regard to taxes, taking 10% then deducting number of children; he has Lord Auckland's authority for saying that is the spirit of the Act, and the clause was drawn up with Mr Pitt. At Lady Owen's played backgammon with the Turkish ambassador and talked (in French and Greek) to members of his suite; the ambassador's nephew wore a dagger ornamented with diamonds. Mentions plays and pantomimes. Dined with a group including Dr Burney, Dr Warner and Porson, at which Horne Tooke was toasted; two coachloads of people supposedly involved in treasonable correspondence have arrived from Manchester. Scarborough now a common tailor. PLACE: [London]
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ALS. 1 bifolium
Associated material
Etoniana p. 763
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