Do you sometimes feel that you were born in the wrong century? That perhaps you would have preferred to live in a different age? In the era of elegance perhaps? When gentlemen in powdered wigs danced beneath glittering chandeliers, with ladies in gowns of gold? Would you have liked to live in a world of marble palaces, with kings and coronets, where ladies fanned themselves and fainted. Where men fought duels at the drop of a glove? Then listen, listen to a letter written over two hundred years ago...