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It is a little plaything-house that I got out of Mrs Chevenix's shop,
and it is the prettiest bauble you ever saw. It is set in
enamelled meadows with filigree hedges?barges as
solemn as Barons of the Exchequer move under my
window? Thank God! theThames is between me and the
Duchess of Queensberry.
1747 Of Strawberry Hill, the first'Gothic'cottage, a showplace in its day. Letter to Henry Seymour Conway, 8 Jun. InW S Lewis (ed) Selected Letters of HoraceWalpole (1973). Mrs Chevenix kept a well-known toy-shop. | ||
