gardenhood

Updated: May 25, 2025

I cannot say last night was equally agreeable. There was what they called a ridotto al fresco at Vauxhall, for which one paid half-a-guinea, though, except some thousand more lamps and a covered passage all round the garden, which took off from the gardenhood, there was nothing better than on a common night. Mr.

Horace Walpole - Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II