You may believe how much I am busied.  I have been presented at the queen’s Lodge in Windsor, and seen Mrs. Haggerdorn in office, and find I have a place of really nothing to do, but to attend; and on Thursday I am appointed by her majesty to go to St. James’s, to see all that belongs to me there.  And I am now “fitting Out” just as you were, and all the maids and workers suppose I am going to be married, and snigger every time they bring in any of My new attire.  I do not care to publish the affair till it is made known by authority ; so I leave them to their conjectures, and I fancy their greatest wonder is, who and where is the sposo; for they must think it odd he should never appear!

(189) “Memoirs of Dr. Burney,” vol. iii. p. 87.  Fanny had, however, to assist in dressing the queen.  See postea, P- 345.

190) The death of the Duchess dowager of Portland.

(191) Miss Planta was English teacher to the two eldest princesses.-Ed.

(192) One of the governesses to the princesses.-Ed.

(193) Georgina Mary Anne Port, grandniece of Mrs. Delany, by whom she was brought up from the age of seven until Mrs. Delany’s death.  She was born in 1771, and mairied, in 1789, Mr. Waddington, afterwards Lord Llanover.  She was for many years on terms of friendship with Fanny, but after Madame D’Arblay’s death, Lady Llanover seized the opportunity of publishing, in her edition of Mrs. Delany’s Correspondence, an attack upon her former friend, of which the ill-breeding is only equalled by the inaccuracy.  The view which she there takes of Fanny is justly characterised by Mr. Shuckburgh as “the lady-in-waiting’s lady’s-maid’s view.” (See Macmillan’s magazine for February, 1890.)-Ed.

(194) Joseph Baretti, author of an Italian and English Dictionary, and other works; the friend Of JOhnson, well known to readers of Boswell.  He had long been acquainted wifh the Burneys.  Fanny writes in her “Early Diary” (March, 1773):  “Mr. Baretti appears to be very facetious; he amused himself very much with Charlotte, whom he calls churlotte, and kisses whether she will or no, always calmly saying, ‘Kiss A me, Churlotte!’” Charlotte Burney was then about fourteen; she was known after this in the family as Mrs. Baretti.-Ed.

(195) A character in “Cecilia."-Ed.

(196) Mrs. Phillips (Susan)-ed.

(197) Madame de Genlis had visited England during the spring of 1785, and made the acquaintance of Dr. Burney and his daughter Fanny.  In July Fanny writes of her as “the sweetest as well as the most accomplished Frenchwoman I ever met with,” and in the same month Madame de Genlis writes to Fanny:  “Je vous aime depuis l’instant o`u j’ai lu Evelina et Cecilia, et le bonheur de vous entendre et de vous conn6itre personellement a rendu ce sentiment aussi tendre qu’il est bien fond6.”  The acquaintance, however, was not kept up.-Ed.