Iliff-King phrasebook

Origin

“An elegant sufficiency” first appears in James Thomson’s 1728 poem Spring, albeit in a context devoid of food. In the years between then and 1840, where Cassidy traces it back to, it seems to have become something of a pre-digital-age meme (from https://blogs.bl.uk/sound-and-vision/2018/04/an-elegant-sufficiency-or-the-curious-case-of-a-victorian-meme.html)

Collector

Evelyn – 1940s?
Evelyn King (Joyce Collard) – mother of Naomi, Francis, Clare & Jeremy

Notes

Granny Dixon would sometimes come out with “I’ve had an elegant sufficiency of the delICacies upon this table, and if I had any more I’d burst”