Note 265 — Chapter II · LEARNED LADIES IN ENGLAND FROM 1650 TO 1760 (continued 3)
Reading edition
Letters of Mrs. Delany, 1st Series, vol. I, p. 263. Mrs. Chapone was evidently a gifted letter-writer and it is with a sense of great loss that we read of the accidental burning of many of her letters in 1860. (Letters of Mrs. Delaney, 1st Series, vol. I, p. 263 n.)