Posted by talpianna on February 19, 2002 at 02:39:25:
In Reply to: Re: Actually, according to my research, keeping a private carriage at a livery stable was quite expensive and my characters are both experiencing some cash-flow problems. But that issue aside, this was Mrs. Dove's carriage. Very elegant. posted by talpianna on February 17, 2002 at 20:55:31:
We were late in London, from being a great load, and from changing coaches at Farnham; it was nearly four, I believe, when we reached Sloane Street. Henry himself met me, and as soon as my trunk and basket could be routed out from all the other trunks and baskets in the world, we were on our way to Hans Place in the luxury of a nice, large, cool, dirty hackney coach.
--from an 1814 letter to her sister Cassandra