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5. Dr. Alexander Drummond to Catherine Hamilton, April 19, 1791, BL Add. MS 40714, f 193.
6. Vigée-Lebrun, Memoirs, p. 106.
7. Watkins, Travels, pp. 401-2; Samuel Sharp, Letters from Italy (London, 1767), p. 78; Martyn, Gentleman's Guide, p. 282.
8. Friedrich Stolberg, Travels Through Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Sicily (London, 1796), pp. 124-25.
9. Martyn, Gentleman's Guide, p. 300.
10. Boswell, Boswell on the Grand Tour, p. 58.
11. Miller, Letters from Italy, p. 222.
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1. Goethe, Italian Journey, p. 208.
2. Memoirs of the Comtesse de Boigne, trans. Sylvia de Morsier-Kotthaus (London, 1956), p. 65.
3. Sir William never declared he tutored Emma in the Attitudes, although he always claimed the credit for her improved singing voice and polished manners.
4. Smith, Sketch of a Tour, pp. 119-23.
5. Carlo Gastone, Opere del Cavaliere Carlo Gastone, ed. and trans F. Machetti (Rome, 1819), pp. 247–48.
6. Joseph Thomas d'Espinchal, Journal d'Emigration, ed. Ernest D'Hauterie (Paris, 1912), pp. 88-89.
7. Sir William to Camarthen, May 19, 1789, PRO FO, 70/4, 122.
8. Sir William to Joseph Banks, October 20, 1789, BL Add. MS 34048, f 58.
9. Sir William to Camarthen, August 7, 1789, PRO FO 70/4, 144. 10. Ibid., October 27, 1789, PRO FO 70/4/158, 27.
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1. Sir William to Joseph Banks, April 6, 1790, BL Add. MS 34048, f. 61-62.
2. Ibid., April 6, 1790, BL Add. MS 34048, f. 61.
3. Town and Country Magazine, September 1790, p. 483.
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1. Hamilton, Letters and Diaries, p. 308.
2. European Magazine, July 29, 1791. Emma made an expensive painting: he later had to pay £300 for both canvases.
3. Sir Thomas Lawrence to Daniel Lysons, The Life and Correspondence of Sir Thomas Lawrence, ed. D. E. Lawrence (London, 1831), I:103; Sir Thomas Lawrence's Letter Bag, ed. G. S. Layard (London, 1906), p. 29.
4. Hamilton, Letters and Diaries, p. 316.
5. Ibid., p. 309.
6. Sir William to the Archbishop of Canterbury, August 22, 1791, BL Add. MS 46491, ff. 129-30.
7. William Beckford to Sir William, November 1791, Bodleian Library, Beckford MS, c. 31, f. 120.
8. Elizabeth Foster, "Journal," in Dearest Bess: The Life and Times of Lady Elizabeth Foster, ed. Dorothy Stuart (London, 1955), p. 59.
9. Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, August 17, 1791, Horace Walpole's Correspondence, ed. W S. Lewis and A. Dayle Wallace (New Haven, 1944), XL337.
10. Sir William to Countess Spencer, August 17, 1795, BL Althorp Papers, Fill. The countess drafted a stern reply, still in the Althorp Collection, but eventually sent only an understanding note.
11. John Dickenson to Mary, August 29, 1791, in Hamilton, Letters and Diaries, p. 312.
12. James Bland Burges, 1791, Fitzwilliam Museum, Percival Bequest, MS.
13. Gentleman's Magazine, September 1791, p. 872.
14. New Lady's Magazine, September 1791.
15. The Times, September 14, 1791.
16. Emma to Mary Dickenson, in Hamilton, Letters and Diaries, p. 312.
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1. Sir William to Camarthen, November 5, 1791, PRO FO 70/4, 48.
2. Letters of Lord Palmerston, in Portrait of a Whig Peer, ed. Brian Connell (London, 1957), p. 250.
3. See Emma's description of her meeting with Marie-Antoinette, Houghton Library, MS Eng 196.5, 72.
4. Sir William to Camarthen, November 5, 1791, PRO FO 70/4/48.
5. Lord James Wright to Earl of Ailesbury (who he hoped would pass on the information to Lord Grenville), January 29, 1792, Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office, 9/35/278.
6. Wright to Ailesbury, January 29, 1792, Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office, 9/35/278.
7. Sir William to Joseph Banks, March 1792, BL Add. MS 34048, f 66.
8. Hamilton, Letters and Diaries, p. 320.
9. Emma to Romney December 20, 1791, Houghton Library, MS Eng 156.
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1. Sir William to Camarthen, November 20, 1786, PRO FO 70/3, 306.
2. As a scandalous account of the court later claimed, "She [the Queen] machinated hard to push Hamilton out of the King's favour, but