Volume the Second: Diplomatic Display London British Library, Add. MS. 59874
Winter.
I always longed particularly to go to Vaux-hall, to see whether the cold Beef thereis cut so thin as it is reported, for I have
asly suspicion that few people understandthe art of
cutting a slice of cold Beef sowell as I
do: nay it would be hard if I didnot know something of the Matter, for it wasa part of my EducationthatI
took I always tookby far
the mostpains with. Mama always found me herbest Scholar, tho'though when Papa was alive Eloisawas his. Never to be sure were there two moredifferent Dispositions in the World. We bothloved Reading. She preferred Histories, & IReceipts. She loved drawing Pictures, and I