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In his biography of Charles Sumner, David Donald relates how Sumner went to London and got introduced around to everybody who was anybody back in 1837-8 with considerable success. He accepted an invitation to call on "the meretricious Countess of Blessington" who kept a "famous and scandalous ménage at Gore House." Donald says that Sumner didn't think much of her friends Disraeli or Bulwer, but otherwise leaves the subject of what went on there unmentioned.
The reader is supposed to know all about Blessington, I guess; the only reference is to some of Sumner's letters. What's the scandal?
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