400 
drawing room very spacious and being the end house 
very light, three windows in front, two at the side. 
The end house next the river was Harford’s, this one Mrs. 
Hume’s must have been one of the two corners of Duke St. 
Was Duke St. then first called Lame St. 
26th. Dined alone at the lodgings. 
He wrote this day—I mean to revisit the good old Dr. at 
Alfred House, and shall not fail, as he kindly desires, to pay 
him almost daily visits. By all accounts from the faculty he 
cannot long survive He is regularly attended by physician, 
surgeon, and apothecary. The physician was Harington, the 
surgeon Cruttwell. 
27th. Dined at the Bear with lord Kelly, Mr. O'Byrne, 
Mr. Nexbitt, &c. 
28th. Dined at the lodgings with Miss Cantelo and Mr. 
Richard Peirce. Mr. Brereton’s ball at the Upper 
Rooms 750 present. 
2gth. Dined at the Bear with lord Kelly, Mr. O’Brien, 
Mr. O'Birne, Mr Baker, Mr. Sneyd, &c. 
3oth. Dined alone at the lodgings. 
31st Dined at Mr. Western’s in Brock St. with Mr. and 
Mrs. Western, Dr. Staker, Mr. Plunket, &c. The 
grand ball, Dawson’s, at the Lower Rooms, thirteen 
hundred expected. Luckily, he wrote to his daughter, 
old father Time has put me out of the power of the 
pretty Misses. Miss Wilkes had a habit of writing— 
you was,— this he corrects—not you was,—if you 
please, but you were. The phrase is not you is,—but 
you are, a charming girl ! 
1780. Jany r. Dined at Mr. Cruttwell’s in Queen Square with 
Mr. and Mrs. Cruttwell, Mr. Mullett, Mrs. Smith, Miss 
Murray and Mr. and Mrs. Hawes. 
and. Dined at Lord Conyngham’s in the Circus with 
Mr. and Mrs. and Miss Barton, Dr. Lee, &c. 
