Note 293 — Chapter II · LEARNED LADIES IN ENGLAND FROM 1650 TO 1760 (continued 4)
Reading edition
On her return she brought nineteen volumes of this journal which she entrusted to her daughter. Lady Bute kept them under lock and key, occasionally reading passages from them, and once allowing her daughter, Lady Louisa, to read the first portions. Before Lady Bute's death the manuscript was solemnly burned as a sacred duty to her mother's memory.