An American
Family Figured As The Visitors, And The Piece Opened With A Scene In
An Hotel, When A Waiter
Brings in a tea-tray loaded with cards of
callers, and the explanation of the initials having had reference to
People, many of whom were present at the performance, tended much to
make the thing pass off with great eclat. It seems that a custom
prevails there to a punctilious extent, of all the inhabitants of a
certain grade calling upon strangers and leaving their cards.
"This flash of harmless lightning, however, assumed somewhat of a
malignant glare when seen from the United States. The drift of the
performance was, it seems, hideously misrepresented by some of the
newspapers, and it was said that Mr. Galt had ungratefully ridiculed
the Americans, notwithstanding the distinction and hospitality with
which they had received him. It thus came to pass that he promised,
when next in New York, to write another farce, in which liberty as
great should be taken with his own countrymen. "An Aunt in Virginia"
was the product of this promise, and with the alterations mentioned
and a change of scene from New York to London, it was published under
the name of "Scotch and Yankees.""
A volume would not suffice to detail the brilliant receptions, gay routs,
levees, state balls given at the Castle during Lord Dorchester's
administration - the lively discussions - the formal protests originating
out of points of precedence, burning questions de jupons between
the touchy magnates of the old and those of the new regime.
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