Wednesday, February 7, 2024

Feb 7– Letter to The Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield by Samuel Johnson (1755)

 No music tonight

Reading

Feb 7– Letter to The Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield by Samuel Johnson (1755)

Summary: A grovelly one page letter! (Edit: I must've been half asleep when I wrote this. Not grovelly, sarcastic!)

Commentary: Well, it was only a page, so quick and easy tonight. It really just sounds like an overly humble letter to a patron, not much to say. (Edit: Overly humble because it's sarcastic.)

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