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This reminds me of the proposition that a gentleman wishes never to insult
anyone by accident.
Did these men have an etiquette book of some sort?
Eve S. Gregory, Web Master
Surry County, Virginia, Historical Society and Museums, Inc.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vaschsm/
Surry County VaGenWeb
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vasurry/
Sussex County VaGenWeb
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vasussex/
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Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:54:50 -0400
From: Jon Kukla <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: anecdote of Sir William Gooch"
An anecdote of Sir William Gooch, sometime [i.e., former] Governor of
Virginia
which I stumbled upon in *The Dublin Magazine for the Year 1764*:
Sir William Gooch being in conversation with a gentleman in a street of
Williamsburgh,
returned the salute of a negro, who was passing by about his master=92s
business. Sir,
said the gentleman, does your honour descend so far as to salute a
slave? Why (replied
the governor) Yes: I cannot suffer a man of his condition to exceed me in
good manners.
Jon Kukla
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