MS West Sussex County Record Office/ Add. 16,944/6

My dear Miss Walker
Did people in 1800 think as much about war as we do? In fact I think they had a respite then, while the Peace of Amiens prevailed. I knew the old Dean of Winchester who had been at a levee of the First Consul in that year with Sir James Mackintosh. I made my niece look at him (the Dean) he was 90, by way of making a link

I have a Peacock at Home with the badly painted pictures you describe /1807\, but the drawings were Mulready’s and are excellent the poem is Mrs Dorset’s.

Griffiths and Farran republished it without the paint, and one sees how good they are. The Butterfly’s ball by Roscoe was the first but the Peacock is much cleverer. The Lion’s Masquerade is not quite equal to the others, nor is the Elephant’s Ball. They had all fallen into the way of imitations

yours sincerely
C M Yonge