The letters of Sir Walter Scott and Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe to Robert Chambers, 1821-45 : with original memoranda of Sir Walter Scott . er Parties in old timestook place in a house in the Cowgate. Theladies would sometimes have the oyster wenchesto dance in the ballroom, tho they were knownto be of the worst character. This went underthe convenient name of frolic. A woman ofreputation who can find pleasure in such orgies,is ten thousand times more depraved than theunhappy creatures with whom she consolidates,I have heard that said wenches were alwaysexcellent dancers. The fine gentlemen of
The letters of Sir Walter Scott and Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe to Robert Chambers, 1821-45 : with original memoranda of Sir Walter Scott . er Parties in old timestook place in a house in the Cowgate. Theladies would sometimes have the oyster wenchesto dance in the ballroom, tho they were knownto be of the worst character. This went underthe convenient name of frolic. A woman ofreputation who can find pleasure in such orgies,is ten thousand times more depraved than theunhappy creatures with whom she consolidates,I have heard that said wenches were alwaysexcellent dancers. The fine gentlemen of theperiod had frequently balls in the oystertaverns where they were the only much* Edinburgh is improved in someparticulars. In one of the early numbers of ConstablesMagazine is a notice about the tippling ofScotch ladies in an account of old Scotchmanners—very curious. Lady Elizabeth Howard, Duchess of Gordon,Dr of the Duke of Norfolk, by Lady AnneSomerset, Dr of the Marquis of Worcester,celebrated for the disturbance she occasionedby the medal sent to the Dean and Facultyof Advocates, died at the Abbey hill—1732—. ROBERT an unpublished Daguerreotype by I). O. Ililb (about 1845). CHARLES KIRKPATRICK SHARPE. 45 I suppose in that house which latterly belongedto Baron Norton; it was previously BaronMures. Could that be the house Lord Airthmentions ? it seems old. From Pitcairns Assembly it appears thatLady Murrays yards were a fashionable Mallof the time—I suppose the garden in theCanongate. Lord Wemyss told me that heremembered this Duke of Gordons motherresiding in the house. Queensberry House was built by the firstduke on ground purchased from the Lauderdalefamily. It is in Dumfriesshire—you know thatcircumstance. Duke Jamess eldest son, LordDrumlanrig, was an idiot, and early grew toa great height—I have seen his coffin atDurrisdeer, very long, and unornamented withthe heraldic follies, which bedizen the violatedremains of his rela
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