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Excerpt from 'Mann' and Manners at the Court of Florence, 1740-1786, Vol. 1 of 2: Founded on the Letters of Horace Mann to Horace Walpole
IN the year 1737 there was an Assembly in the London mansion of one of the minor Queens of fashion, -mrs. Strode. To a young fellow there, who bore about him a sober look of satisfaction, one of the light and lively Princesses of that Queen's Court - dashing Mrs. Morehead - swept up, and con gratulated him on his good luck. The gentleman was Mr. Horace Mann. He acknowledged his good luck. Yes; Sir Robert Walpole had appointed him to the English Legation at Florence, to assist and soon succeed the present envoy from England, Mr. Fane.
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