Arthur Dixon letters

very well, was very happy & behaved very good. Miss Alboro’ played much, Tancredi Massaniello, Dame Blanche, Faust, &c &c &c. I was very much fatter, so Edmund said, & I said yes. She was dressed very plainly tell your Ladies & wore a white rose in her hair, a large one. – Mr Lounde looked excessively handsome so the Ladies said, (his wife was not there) but the poor man suffered a dreadful[ly – crossed out] screwing fronm Toothache. Edmund & I drank your health in solemn silence. –
Freeman had been on the water all day until late in the evening & had returned to sleep at Norwich, so after we had safely stored away the Lady, Edmund walked to Thorpe with me to sleep a little before his next days work. It was past midnight when we were on the road. Such a night! Not made for slumber. The moon seemed in the same place as when you & I left Geldart on the Bishops Bridge to get his boat & our toggery as they call it here, & him to go to Thorpe to sleep an hour, & when we called him out to spend the night upon the water, we almost thought it must have been the anniversary, but concluded in the decision that it would be more like it next month. When we got to Thorpe, we went to the bottom of the garden & enjoyed together such a scene, while Edmund sung in his best manner “At the silent hour”. We afterwards knocked up a sketch between us which is really very like the thing. We were not (to pay for all this) down to Breakfast in the morning untill eight oclock! This is all gossip, & more than enough of it, but theres something else that cannot possible [sic] be omitted in my