3(5 Caroline Lncretia Hcrschcl. [1774-1775. 



scholars were leaving Bath ; and then to my sorrow I saw 

 almost every room turned into a workshop. A cabinet- 

 maker making a tube and stands of all descriptions in a 

 handsomely furnished drawing-room ; Alex putting up a 

 huge turning machine (which he had brought in the autumn 

 from Bristol, where he used to spend the summer) in a bed- 

 room, for turning patterns, grinding glasses, and turning 

 eye-pieces, &c. At the same time nmsic durst not lie en- 

 tirely dormant during the summer, and my brother had 

 frequent rehearsals at home, where Miss Farinelli, an 

 Italian singer, was met by several of the principal per- 

 formers he had engaged for the winter concerts 



He composed glees, catches, &c., for such voices as 

 he could secure, as it was not easy to find a singer to take the 

 place of Miss Linley. . . .* . Sometimes, in the absence of 

 Fisher, he gave a concerto on the oboe, or a sonata on the 

 harpsichord ; and the solos on the violoncello of my brother 

 Alexander were divine ! . . . . He also took great delight 

 in a choir of singers who performed the cathedral service at 

 the Octagon Chapel, for whom he composed many excellent 

 anthems, chants, and psalm tunes.* As soon as I could 

 pronounce English well enough I was obliged to attend the 

 rehearsals, and on Sundays at morning and evening service, 

 which, though I did not much like at first, I soon found to 

 be both pleasant and useful. 



* Although a considerable quantity of Sir AY. Hersohel's muskal compo- 

 sitions exist in manuscript, much lias unhappily perished. His sister writ <-s : 

 " I only lament that this anthem was left with the rest of my brother's 

 sacred compositions, which were left in trust with one of the choristers. The 

 morning and evening services each in two different keys, and numerous psalm 

 tunes most beautifully set. The organ book containing the scores ; the parts 

 written out and bound in leather, in a box with lock and key which was always 

 kept at the chapel. All is lost. With difficulty many years after, one T e 

 Deum was recovered, and when 1 was in Bath in 1800 I obtained two or three 

 torn books of odd parts." The chorister's wife openly charged Mr. Linley 

 with having taken possession of those treasures. 



