292 'OLD Q' 



wish more to be where you are than anywhere else. 

 Mille choses de plus honnete et de plus tendre ii la cara 

 Luisina. Tell her that there are great expectations about 

 the opera, and that the connoisseurs like Giardini better 

 than Manzoli. — Yours very affectionately, 



M. AND R, 



APPENDIX T. 



Piccadilly, ISth October 1766. 



My dear George, — Yesterday morning I received 

 both your letters. I went after dinner to Guerchy's, 

 where I found the Marquis de Fitzjames, and we have 

 agreed to go together to Newmarket. They talked a great 

 deal about you, and I took an opportunity of saying how 

 much you thought yourself indebted to them for the 

 civilities you receive at Paris. There is no harm in a 

 word of that kind now and then, which, I hope, you will 

 remember for me where you are, that I may be received 

 well, if, after these d— — d races, I should have money and 

 spirits to set out. 



After Guerchy's, I went to Lady Shelburne's, where 

 were all the people that can be gathered together at this 

 time of the year. Lady Hertford made a thousand 

 enquiries about you ; asked how long you intended to 

 stay, and hoped you would soon be tired of blind women, 

 old presidents, and premiers. Mademoiselle Guerchy gave 

 me an account of the little Teresina, but I long to hear 

 what you think of her, and I know you will be so par- 

 ticular, that it will be like having seen her myself. I 



