Your Wastecoat is most universally admired, and I shall be much
obliged to you for another exactly the same. I hope to pay my
respects to Mr. and Mrs. Gould (to whom I beg my compliments) some
time next week, but cannot yet fix the day. In the meantime I am in
wonderfull haste, just going to Vauxhall.[132]
Dear Madam,
Ever Yours,
E. G.
[132] The Spring Gardens at Vauxhall (properly Fulke's Hall, the
manor of Fulke de Breauté) were formed in the reign of Charles
II. From 1732 onwards, under the management of Jonathan Tyers,
the music, vocal and instrumental, and the masquerades, or
_Ridottos al fresco_, attracted the fashionable world of London.
The gardens were closed in 1859. The name of their enterprising
manager is preserved in Tyers Street.
[Sidenote: HIS FATHER'S ILLNESS.]
81.
_To James Scott, Esq._
Beriton, July the 3rd, 1770.