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Updated: October 8, 2026
"When we decided to come to England my father telephoned to Jawkins, who immediately sent out a list of country-seats. We chose this and made arrangements with him to supply us with guests at so much a head. A regular country-house party a duke and duchess, one or two financially embarrassed noblemen, a disestablished bishop, a professional beauty, a poet-peer, and several other attractions.
It was natural that the address on the reopening of Drury Lane theatre should be written by "the world's new joy" the first great English poet-peer; as natural as that in his only published satire of the period he should inveigh against almost the only amusement in which he could not share.