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in the Guildhall, and afterwards driven round the city, concluding 
with a little comedy on Claverton Down. How keen an interest 
the “duke” is taking in his visit, says one journal—a Bristol 
paper,— may be seen from the following letter. Then follows the 
letter accepting the official invitation. Here the poor man not 
Jong made a marquess must be dubbed a duke which he was not : 
an example of the lowest and worst form of attempted flattery. 
As already noted some activity ensued on the residence question 
which became the more acute as it neared the certainty of 
disappointment. One contributor to it announced that in over- 
hauling his “extensive collection” he had discovered the much 
needed fact ; but proof being asked for and not forthcoming, the 
asserted discovery ‘being persistently left unsupported by any 
authority,” it was well remarked that it had ‘yet to run the 
‘gauntlet of others whose knowledge of such matters is extensive.”* 
Apparently judging that an extensive knowledge was better than 
an extensive collection of books. After these remarks on this 
unnecessary mystery it was presently elicited that the authority 
was from some letters which had belonged to the late Mr. C. P. 
Russell once librarian at the Institution which placed it beyond a 
doubt that the house in question was No. 7 Terrace Walk. To 
whom such letters may have once belonged does not concern 
any one, but from whom they came or originated and where they 
are does so, yet they were not produced, their origin was not 
stated, so that the question, instead of being placed “ beyond a 
doubt” remained still altogether in doubt and unproved. The 
same writer, apparently, in the then current number of a local 
political periodical called ‘‘The Beacon” further states that at the end 
of 1770 Richard Sheridan was living with his father in Kingsmead 
street and that subsequently he resided at 7 Terrace Walk. 
Hitherto, it is added—we have only the late Mr. James Titley’s 
unsupported statement as to this in his ‘‘ Memorable Houses of 
* Bath Herald, 7 Sept. 
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