Stony splendour
Mar 17, 2022
2 minutes
n July 1756, the writer Horace Walpole received a letter from his friend George Montagu describing an alarming incident in Oxford. An old acquaintance of theirs by the name of Parson Fletcher had been sitting in an auditorium on Broad Street when a beam fell and hit him on the head. Only his fashionable beaver-skin hat
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