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Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 1 (of 2)

Note 139 — 103.

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The Soho masquerades were given at Carlisle House by Mrs. Theresa Cornelys, whom Walpole calls "the Heidegger of the age." It was here that, the year before, the Duke of Gloucester appeared as Edward IV. with Lady Waldegrave as Elizabeth Woodville.

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