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King George IV and John Wilson Croker : Life of Sheridan

From John Wilson Croker's Note Book: 'On the 25th November 1825, I went by His Majesty's invitation to dine and sleep at the Royal Lodge in Windsor Park. His Majesty had intended to have shown me the plantations and improvements made during the autumn, but it snowed heavily in the night, and next morning the weather was so exceedingly bad that there was no possibility of stirring out, and His Majesty admitted me to his dressing-room, and conversed with me for a considerable time -- indeed all the morning. Mr. Moore's "Life of Sheridan" was lying on the table, and in allusion to the variety of misstatements made in that work with regard to His Majesty's conduct, he took up the book to point out to me particularly some of these errors.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: King George IV and John Wilson Croker     Print: Book

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