'"This book [Dr Foote's Plain Home Talk and Cyclopaedia) made a great impression on me", wrote Glasgow foundryworker Thomas Bell "And I handed it round my workmates until it was as black as coal and the batters torn".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Bell Print: Book
'Read Foote's "Farce of the Minor"; I do not admire it near as much as I do the Mayor of Garratt.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book
'I had a letter from Ly. -- on Tuesday that gave me great content, for I, like you, felt a little afraid that the Lady Augusta might give offence. However, her withers are altogether unwrung, and she speaks of "Trevelyan" just as I could wish, enumerating all her bothers and businesses, but saying she cannot resist taking it up at odd times, "it is so very, very interesting!!" She has not yet come to the end; however, this has quite dispelled my fears. For that matter, when we all read "Emma" together at poor Bothwell - the duchess one - we could not help laughing a little more at the devotion of father and daughter to their respective apothecaries, and all the coddling that ensued from it, but we did not find that it struck the devotees in existence. People are so used to themselves! One of Foote's most comical farces represented to the life a certain Mr. Ap. Rees, whom, as old people told me, it did not in the least exaggerate. They swore to having heard him utter the very things the farce put in his mouth. But he himself never found it out. He was intimate with Foote, read the play, told him it was d- stupid and would not suceed, wondered it did, yet went to it and laughed for company, till some good-natured friend informed him he was the person ridiculed; then he went in a rage to the Lord Chamberlain and desired it might be suppressed'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Ap Rees Print: Book
Saturday, 6 January 1827:
'In the evening read Foote's farce of the Commissary, said to have been levelled at Sir Laurence Dundas.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott Print: Book
'Seams will slit and elbows will out quoth the tailor - and as I was fifty four on 15 August last my mortal vestments are none of the newest.'
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott
