radotage

I wish my letters could go as speedily to you, to prevent the radotage incident to letters of an old date.

George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Helen [Editor] Clergue

I wish my letters could go as speedily to you, to prevent the radotage incident to letters of an old date.

George Selwyn His Letters and His Life Ed 1899

They wrote about the prize they are going to found; they kept a diary, they wrote down everything they heard, felt, or saw, _radotage de vieille femme_; nothing must escape, not the slightest word; it might be that very word that might confer on them immortality; everything they heard, or said, must be of value, of inestimable value.

Confessions of a Young Man 1892