30 Stephen Miller, Conversation: A History of a Declining Art (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006) pp. 88-102.
31 AC 1:139; MD to AD, day after coronation of George II (that is, October 12, 1727).
32 Hayden, Mrs. Delany: Her Life and Her Flowers, p. 40.
33 AC 1:138; MD to AD, day after coronation of George II (that is, October 12, 1727).
34 AC 1:139; MD to AD, day after coronation of George II (that is, October 12, 1727).
35 AC 1:196; MD to AD, March 14, 1729.
36 AC 1:198; MD to AD, March 14, 1729.
37 “The Marteau Early-18th-Century Currency Converter” and “Measuring Worth” Web site.
38 AC 1:191; MD to AD, March 4, 1729. The next quotation is also on this page.
39 Clare Browne, “Mary Delany’s Embroidered Court Dress,” in Laird and Weisberg-Roberts, Mrs. Delany and Her Circle, pp. 66-79.
40 AC 1:154; MD to AD, January 19, 1728.
41 AC 1:155; MD to AD, January 19, 1728.
42 AC 1:239; Autobiography.
43 AC 1:202; MD to AD, March 13, 1729.
44 AC 1:201; MD to AD, March 13, 1729.
45 AC 1:179, 1:190; MD to AD, November 19, 1728.
46 AC 1:230; MD to AD, December 20, 1729.
47 AC 1:149; MD to AD, November 25, 1727.
48 AC 1:236; MD to AD, February 7, 1730.
49 AC 1:202; MD to AD, March 13, 1729.
50 Kim Sloan, “A Noble Art”: Amateur Artists and Drawing Masters c. 1600–1800 (London: British Museum Press, 2000), p. 40.
51 AC 1:222; MD to AD, November 8, 1726.
52 AC 1:208; MD to AD, April 19, 1729; and 1:236, MD to AD, February 7, 1730.
53 AC 1:233; MD to AD, December 25, 1729. The quotations in the next six paragraphs are also on this page.
54 Reproductions of drawings for the court dress and details from the court dress are in Hayden, Mrs. Delany: Her Life and Her Flowers, pp. 93, 98.
55 AC 1:240-41; Autobiography.
56 AC 1:241; Autobiography.
57 AC 2:72; MD to AD, January 22, 1740.
58 AC 1:241; Autobiography.
CHAPTER SEVEN: CANADA LILY
1 Interview with Alicia Weisberg-Roberts, April 16, 2010. Mrs. Delany’s height has been extrapolated from the surviving skirt of her court dress.
2 Ellen T. Harris, “Three Ladies of Handel’s Will,” Newsletter of the American Handel Society 15:2 (April/August 2000), pp. 1, 4-6, esp. p. 4: http://americanhandelsociety.org/newsletter/newsletter.htm.
3 AC 1:223; MD to AD, November 21, 1729. The quotations in the next paragraph are also on this page. Lisa L. Moore discusses Mary Delany’s female friendships in “Queer Gardens: Mary Delany’s Flowers and Friendships.”
4 AC 1:241; Autobiography.
5 AC 1:241-42; Autobiography.
6 AC 1:276; MD to AD, June 8, 1731.
7 AC 1:283; MD to AD, July 13, 1731. The quotations in the next paragraph are also on this page.
8 William Hogarth, The Analysis of Beauty: Written With a View of Fixing the Fluctuating Ideas of Taste (1753; new ed., London: Printed by W. Strahan for Mrs. Hogarth, 1772), p. xvii.
9 AC 1:252; MD to AD, April 4, 1730.
10 AC 1:222; Lady Llanover’s commentary.
11 AC 1:292; MD to AD, September 26, 1731. The other quotation in this paragraph is also from this letter and is on pages 1:291-92. Angélique Day has edited a one-volume collection of Mrs. Delany’s letters from Ireland (based on AC): Letters from Georgian Ireland: The Correspondence of Mary Delany 1731–68 (Belfast: Friar’s Bush Press, 1991).
12 AC 1:305; MD to AD, October 21, 1731.
13 AC 1:326; MD to AD, December 4, 1731. The next two quotations are also from this letter and are on pages 1:325 and 1:324.
14 AC 1:334; MD to AD, January 17, 1732.
15 AC 1:316; MD to AD, November 25, 1731.
16 AC 1:336; MD to AD, February 3, 1732. The next quotation is also on this page.
17 AC 1:289; MD to AD, September 22, 1731.
18 AC 1:345; MD to AD, March 30, 1732. The next quotation is also from this letter and is on page 1:346.
19 AC 1:348-49; MD to AD, May 17, 1732.
20 AC 1:351; MD to AD, June 12, 1732. The next quotation is also on this page.
21 AC 1:300; MD to AD, October 9, 1731.
22 AC 1:356; MD to AD, June 21, 1732.
23 AC 1:361; MD to AD, June 28, 1732.
24 Paul Valéry, Les merveilles de la mer: Les coquillages (Paris: Plon, 1936), p. 5, quoted in Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space, trans. Maria Jolas (New York: Orion Press, 1964), pp. 105-6.
25 AC 1:388-89; MD to AD, October 30, 1762.
26 AC 1:345, 1:344; MD to AD, March 30, 1732.
27 AC 1:353; MD to AD, June 12, 1732.
28 AC 1:398; Lady Llanover’s commentary.
29 AC 1:296-97; Autobiography.
30 AC 1:396; MD to AD, January 24, 1733. The next two quotations are also on this page.
31 AC 1:403; MD to AD, ca. February 1733.
32 AC 1:400; MD to AD, February 20, 1733.
33 AC 1:414; MD to Dean Jonathan Swift, May 29, 1733.
34 AC 1:415; MD to Dean Jonathan Swift, July 21, 1733. The next three quotations are also from this letter and are on pages 1:415-16, 1:416, and 1:417.
35 Edmund Berkeley and Dorothy Smith Berkeley, The Life and Travels of John Bartram: From Lake Ontario to the River St. John (Tallahassee: Florida State University/University Presses of Florida, 1982), p. 227.
36 John Edmondson, “John Bartram’s Legacy in Eighteenth-Century Art,” in Nancy E. Hoffmann and John C. Van Horne, eds., America’s Curious Botanist: A Tercentennial Reappraisal of John Bartram 1699–1777 (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society in Cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia and John Bartram Association, 2004), p. 143, also Berkeley and Berkeley, Life and Travels of John Bartram, pp. 22-24, 32-33.
37 Joel T. Fry, “John Bartram and His Garden: Would John Bartram Recognize His Garden Today?” in Hoffmann and Van Horne, America’s Curious Botanist, p. 173.
38 B. D. Jackson, rev. Anne Pimlott Baker, “Lee, James (1715-1795),” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004): http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/16291.
39 Berkeley and Berkeley, Life and Travels of John Bartram, p. 45.
40 Berkeley and Berkeley, Life and Travels of John Bartram, p. 48.
41 AC 1:402; MD to AD, ca. February 1733. The other quotations in this paragraph are also on this page.
42 AC 1:404-5; Lady Llanover’s commentary.
43 AC 1:552; Dean Jonathan Swift to MD, January 29, 1736.
44 AC 1:555; MD to Dean Jonathan Swift, April 22, 1736.
CHAPTER EIGHT: PASSION FLOWER
1 Hayden, Mrs. Delany: Her Life and Her Flowers, p. 134.
2 AC 2:70-71; MD to AD, January 22, 1740.
3 AC 2:29; MD to AD, January 23, 1739.
4 “Classic Encyclopedia – Based on the 11th Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (pub. 1911)”: http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/John_Carteret,_Earl_Granville.
5 AC 1:175; MD to AD, June 18, 1728.
6 AC 2:70; MD to AD, January 22, 1740.
7 AC 2:72-73; MD to AD, January 22, 1740.
8 AC 1:297; Autobiography. The quotations in this and the next two paragraphs are all on pages 1:297-99.
9 AC 2:207; MD to AD, April 23, 1743.
10 Countess Granville to Charlotte Clayton (nee Donnellan), quoted in Orr, “Mrs. Delany and the Court,” p. 51.
11 AC 2:206; MD to AD, April 23, 1743.
12 AC 1:561; AD to Kitty Collingwood, Lady Throckmorton, July 8, 1736. The next quotation is also from this letter and is on page 1:562.
13 AC 1:443; AD to MD, March 20, 1734.
14 AC 1:164-65; MD to AD, March 19, 1728.
15 AC 2:74; AD to Kitty Collingwood, Lady Throckmorton, February 7, 1740. The inset quotation and the quotations in the subsequent two paragraphs are all from this letter and are on page 2:75.
16 AC 2:77; AD to Kitty Collingwood, Lady Throckmorton, February 20, 1740.
17 AC 2:75 and 2:77-78; AD to Kitty Collingwood, Lady Throckmorton, February 7, 1740, and February 20, 1740.
18 AC 2:81; MD to AD, April 22, 1740. The next quotation is also from this letter and is on page 2:82.
19 Henry C. Shelley, Inns and Old Taverns of London (1909; rpt. Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Publishing, 2004), p. 32.
20 AC 2:93; Miss Robinson to Ann Donnellan, August 21, 1740.
21 AC 2:116; AD to MD, undated (probably late October–early November 1740).
22 “Kew, History and Heritage: John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute (1713–1792)”: http://www.kew.org/heritage/people/bute.html.
23 E. Charles Nelson, “Some Publication Dates for Parts of William Curtis’ Flora Londinensis,” Taxon 29:5/6 (November 1980), pp. 635-39.
24 See Maureen H. Lazarus and Heather S. Pardoe, “Bute’s Botanical Tables: Dictated by Nature,” Archives of Natural History 36 (2009): 277-98.
25 AC 2:210-11; Patrick Delany to MD, April 23, 1743. The next quotation is also from this letter and is on page 2:211.
26 AC 2:225, 2:227; MD to AD, November 18, 1743.
27 AC 2:211; Patrick Delany to MD, April 23, 1743. The next quotation is also on this page.
28 Hogan and Mell, Poems of Patrick Delany, p. 23.
29 AC 2:212; Patrick Delany to MD, May 3, 1743.
30 AC 2:213; Patrick Delany to MD, May 6, 1743.
31 AC 2:213; Lady Llanover’s commentary.
32 AC 2:213; Patrick Delany to MD, May 6, 1743.
33 AC 2:213; Patrick Delany to MD, May 6, 1743. The other two quotations in this paragraph are also on this page.
34 AC 2:214-15; Patrick Delany to MD, May 12, 1743.
35 AC 2:216; Patrick Delany to MD, May 14, 1743.
36 “The Saw Palmetto Harvesting Company: Passion Flower/ Passiflora”: http://www.passionflower.org/herbal_monograph.html.
37 AC 2:301; MD to AD, May 8, 1744.
38 AC 2:306; MD to AD, June 28, 1744.
CHAPTER NINE: MAGNOLIA
1 John Fisher, The Origins of Garden Plants (1982; rev. London: Constable, 1989), pp. 109-10.
2 Mark Laird, The Flowering of the Landscape Garden: English Pleasure Grounds 1720–1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), p. 76.
3 “Victoria and Albert Museum Botanical Illustration: A Study Room Resource – Georg Dionysius Ehret: ’Blue Bay, Magnolia grandiflora, 1743”: http://www.vam.ac.uk/images/image/40730-popup.html.
4 Amy R. W. Meyers and Margaret Beck Pritchard, “Introduction: Toward an Understanding of Catesby,” in Meyers and Pritchard, eds., Empire’s Nature: Mark Catesby’s New World Vision (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998) pp. 2-3.
5 Meyers and Pritchard, “Introduction,” pp. 9-10.
6 Mark Catesby, The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands (London: Mark Catesby, 1754), Vol. 2, Plate 61.
7 Laird, “Mrs. Delany’s Circles of Cutting and Embroidering in Home and Garden,” p. 159.
8 Laird, “Mrs. Delany’s Circles,” p. 160.
9 AC 2:308-9; MD to AD, July 12, 1744.
10 AC 2:309; MD to AD, July 12, 1744. The other quotations in this paragraph are also from this letter and are on pages 2:309 and 2:309-10.
11 AC 2:316; MD to AD, July 19, 1744. The other quotations in this paragraph are also from this letter and are on pages 2:315 and 2:316.
12 AC 2:558; MD to AD, June 22, 1750. The next quotation is also on this page.
13 AC 2:570; MD to AD, July 15, 1750.
14 AC 2:432; MD to AD, March 29, 1746.
15 AC 2:460; MD to AD, May 26, 1747.
16 AC 2:499-500; MD to AD, August 20, 1748. The next two quotations are also from this letter and are on page 2:500.
17 AC 3:277; MD to AD, June 15, 1754.
18 AC 3:279; MD to AD, June 22, 1754.
19 AC 2:417; MD to AD, January 25, 1746.
20 AC 2:557; MD to AD, June 17, 1750.
21 AC 2:416-17; MD to AD, January 25, 1746.
22 AC 6:499-501; Lady Llanover’s commentary.
23 Sloan, “A Noble Art,” p. 40.
24 AC 3:207; MD to AD, February 17, 1753.
25 AC 3:5; MD to AD, January 12, 1751.
26 AC 3:175; MD to AD, November 25, 1752.
27 AC 3:5; MD to AD, January 12, 1751.
28 AC 2:400; MD to AD, November 23, 1745.
29 AC 2:363; MD to AD, June 21, 1745.
30 AC 2:458; MD to AD, May 19, 1747. The next quotation is also from this letter and is on page 3:457.
31 AC 3:25; MD to AD, March 16, 1751.
32 AC 3:211; MD to AD, March 3, 1753.
33 AC 3:212; MD to AD, March 8, 1753.
34 AC 3:176; MD to AD, November 25, 1752.
35 AC 6:502-3; Lady Llanover’s commentary.
36 AC 2:603; MD to AD, October 13, 1750.
37 AC 3:75; MD to AD, January 9, 1752.
38 AC 3:163-64; MD to AD, October 14, 1752.
39 AC 3:71; MD to AD, January 3, 1752. The other quotations in this paragraph are also on this page.
40 AC 3:70; MD to AD, January 3, 1752.
41 AC 3:106; MD to AD, March 27, 1752 for both quotations.
42 AC 3:172; MD to AD, November 9, 1752.
43 AC 3:189; MD to AD, December 30, 1752.
44 AC 3:207-8; MD to AD, February 24, 1753.
45 AC 3:184; MD to AD, December 15, 1752.
46 AC 3:177; MD to AD, November 25, 1752.
47 AC 3:202; MD to AD, February 3, 1753.
48 AC 3:54; MD to AD, November 7, 1751, and Lady Llanover’s commentary on this page; AC 3:213; MD to AD, March 17, 1753.
49 AC 3:244; MD to AD, November 28, 1753.
50 AC 3:257; MD to AD, December 21, 1753. The other quotations in this paragraph are also from this letter and are on page 3:259.
51 AC 3:259; MD to AD, December 21, 1753.
52 AC 3:266-67; MD to AD, January 29, 1754.
53 AC 3:446-47; MD to AD, November 4, 1756.
54 AC 3:456; MD to AD, December 21, 1756.
55 AC 3:346; Lady Llanover’s commentary.
56 AC 3:491-92; MD to AD, March 9, 1758. The other quotations in this paragraph are also from this letter and are on page 3:492.
57 AC 3:294; MD to AD, October 30, 1754.
58 Orr, “Mrs. Delany and the Court,” p. 43; “David Nash Ford’s Royal Berkshire History: Bill Hill, St. Nicholas Hurst, Berkshire”: http://www.berkshirehistory.com/castles/bill_hill.html.
59 Laird, Flowering of the Landscape Garden, pp. 154, 156.
60 AC 5:230; Dowager-Countess Gower to MD, June 30, 1776.
61 Laird, Flowering of the Landscape Garden, p. 347.
62 AC 4:548; Dowager-Countess Gower to MD, September 27, 1773.
63 The photograph of Delville is in Day, Letters from Georgian Ireland, p. 169. Some of Mrs. Delany’s sketches are in Laird and Weisberg-Roberts, Mrs. Delany and Her Circle, pp. 8, 127, 139, and 151. The plasterwork photos are in C. P. Curran, Dublin Decorative Plasterwork of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (London: Tiranti, 1967).
64 Louis Menand, “Show or Tell: Should Creative Writing Be Taught?” New Yorker (June 8-15, 2009), p. 112.
CHAPTER TEN: EVERLASTING PEA
1 “Matisse Lithographs after Cut-outs”: http://www.henrimatisseprints.com/view_article.php?article_id=135&sort_by=.
2 AC 3:590; MD to AD, April 24, 1760.
3 AC 2:386; MD to AD, September 7, 1745.
4 AC 2:330; MD to AD, September 23, 1744.
5 AC 3:78; MD to AD, January 11, 1752.
6 John Keats, Selected Poems and Letters, Riverside Edition, ed. Douglas Bush (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1959), p. 21, ll. 57-60.
7 “The National Sweet Pea Society” Web site: http://www.sweetpeas.org.uk/Graphics/whatisasweetpea.
8 AC 3:136; MD to AD, July 10, 1752.
9 AC 2:116; AD to MD, ca. late October–ea
rly November 1740.
10 AC 3:347; MD to AD, May 15, 1755.
11 AC 3:413; MD to AD, March 16, 1756.
12 AC 3:412; MD to AD, March 8, 1756.
13 “Channel 4 Time Traveller’s Guide to Victorian Britain: Married Women’s Property Act, 9 August 1870”: http://www.channel4.com/history/
microsites/H/history/guide19/timeline56.html; also Mary Lyndon Shanley, Feminism, Marriage, and the Law in Victorian England (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989), pp. 103-4.
14 AC 3:633-34; quoted in Lady Llanover’s commentary.
15 AC 3:414-15; MD to AD, March 27, 1756. The next quotation is also from this letter and is on page 3:417.
16 AC 3:477; MD to AD, January 21, 1758.
17 AC 3:600; MD to MP, September 1, 1760.
18 AC 3:598; MD to AD, July 12, 1760.
19 AC 3:606; MD to AD, October 28, 1760.
20 AC 3:607; MD to AD, November 2, 1760.
21 AC 3:609; MD to MP, November 3, 1760.
22 AC 3:611; MD to AD, November 8, 1760.
23 AC 3:613; MD to AD, November 13, 1760.
24 AC 3:617; MD to AD, December 19, 1760.
25 AC 3:623; MD to AD, December 28, 1760.
26 AC 3:621; MD to AD, December 19, 1760.
27 AC 3:617; MD to AD, December 13, 1760.
28 AC 3:624; MD to AD, December 28, 1760.
29 AC 3:631; John Dewes to MP, July 8, 1761.
30 AC 4:46; MD to Lady Andover, April 27, 1765.
31 AC 4:48; MD to Lady Andover, June 8, 1765. The next two quotations are also from this letter and are on page 4:50.
32 AC 4:64; MD to Bernard Granville, July 3, 1766.
33 AC 3:249; MD to AD, December 3, 1753.
34 AC 4:76; MD to Lady Andover, September 4, 1766.
35 AC 4:88; MD to Lady Andover, November 8, 1766.
36 AC 4:90; Duchess of Portland to Bernard Granville, December 26, 1766.
37 AC 4:108; MD to Lady Andover, May 16, 1767.
38 AC 4:112; MD to Lady Andover, June 16, 1767.
39 AC 4:119; MD to Lady Andover, July 20, 1767.
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