ABSTRACT
The Schopenhauers arrived at Dover on 24 May 1803 and left England via Harwich on 8 November of the same year. Johanna Schopenhauer, who was a socialite and a snob, is mainly interested in people. Her son is more curious and more idiosyncratic. He is a typical schoolboy: more interested in a ventriloquist than in a public hanging; he is interested in the unusual, the large, the intricate, etc. He is particularly interested in art and literature; he has no time for ‘sloppy’ plays. During the interval between the two pieces a sailor in the gallery started singing in a loud voice. A clergyman was with them on the scaffold; to one of them in particular he talked continuously. The fear which prompted these people to use their very last moment for prayer was a sorry spectacle. The view from one of the principal rooms in the inn, in Richmond Hill, is prodigious fine.
