Her method of reading was admirable; for to the grandeur of her sister Mrs.
Siddons, she united a tenderness and softness, in which that great actress was said to be deficient.

I never open any of the plays of Shakspeare which I studied with her without thinking I hear her voice, and I like them better for the association.
To great personal attractions, which even to the last she retained enough of to give a notion of what her beauty must have been in her youth, Mrs.T---- added a charm of manners, a cultivation of mind, and a goodness of heart seldom surpassed; and, in all the relations of life, her conduct was most praiseworthy.

Even now, though six years have elapsed since her death, the recollection of it brings tears to my eyes.

Good and gentle woman, may your virtues on earth find their reward in Heaven! I passed last evening at Madame Craufurd's, where I met Lady Charlotte Lindsay and the Misses Berry.

How perfectly they answered to the description given of them by Sir William Gell; who, though exceedingly attached to all three, has not, as far as one interview permitted me to judge, overrated their agreeability! Sir William Gell has read me many letters from these ladies, replete with talent, of which their conversation reminded me.
Francis Hare and his wife dined here to-day.