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Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Thomas Linley: their 
residences at Bath. By EMANUEL GREEN, F.S.A. 
(Read December 2nd, 1903.) 
By reason of a prospective visit to Bath of the late, the first, 
marquess of Dufferin, a descendant of Richard Sheridan, and the 
further intention of an official civic reception, some interest in 
_ the Bath life of the Sheridan family was revived. The prominent 
"reason given for this visit was that the marquess should uncover a 
; tablet to be placed on the house in which Sheridan resided, and 
a 
‘so consequently a local desire arose to determine the first im- 
_ perative point, the whereabouts of the house required. Hence 
these now purely local notes as an appendix to my former 
Sheridan papers which have a more than local interest. Besides 
the question of the house, a second, perhaps an equally interesting 
one, will be considered, namely the site of the grotto in which 
‘Sheridan secretly met his lady love, made further memorable by 
the well known verses then produced. 
On the 4th August 1898 the Bath Chronicle announced that 
lord Dufferin had fixed his visit for monday the 5th September, 
but the paragraph was obliged to conclude,—it is to be regretted 
that research has failed to discover the Sheridan residence. 
Then continuing, it is added,—of the first visit of the elder 
Sheridan there is no record, he came probably in 1768-9... This 
entirely recitations by himself. He further announced his plan 
of an academy for teaching the english language. With Mrs. 
Sheridan he was in Bath again in January 1764. It may just be 
“off the stage.”t 
The marquess duly arrived, was as duly entertained at luncheon 
i * Chronicle 5 May, p. 4, col. 2. 
| “+ Creevy Papers,” Vol. 1, p. 53- 
; a z Von. X%, No. 3. 
