Today's posts

 

The poem this week is ‘Mr and Mrs Andrews’.  Gainsborough painted the portrait around 1750. It was still in the Andrews family until 1960 and was relatively unknown until then.  

 

The letter from my terrace in Palma is number 1, ‘Señor Alejandro’.

 

‘Johnson of London’. Here is part 17, ‘Dinner at the Thrales’.  Mr and Mrs Thrale often invited Johnson to stay with them at their house in Streatham. They gave him their company and added comfort and stability to his rather irregular life and habits. In return he introduced them to his friends: poets and playwrights, lawyers and politicians, actors and painters. In fact, they were the most interesting people in London at the time.