morning-grey

Updated: July 11, 2025

What would Sir Philip Sidney have thought of the mode of life Walpole draws in this letter: "About two days ago, about four o'clock in the afternoon ... as we were picking our teeth round a littered table and in a crumby room, Gray in an undress, Mr Conway in a morning-grey coat and I in a trim white night-gown and slippers, very much out of order, with a very little cold, a message discomposed us all of a sudden, with a service to Mr Walpole from Mr More, and that, if he pleased, he would wait on Mr Walpole.

Clare Howard - English Travellers of the Renaissance