[281] Afterwards “Carmen Sylva,” the poet-queen of Roumania.
[282] Widow of my cousin Marcus, lost in the Eurydice.
[283] The epitaph of Prince Otto, by his mother, is—
[284] Née Isabel Waddington, sister of the ambassador from France to England.
[285] Younger son of my real mother’s youngest brother Wentworth.
[286] My real mother’s younger brother, Wentworth Paul, had married Countess Marie Marcia von Benningsen, lady-in-waiting to the Queen of Hanover.
[287] Afterwards ambassador in England.
[288] From “Sketches in Holland and Scandinavia.”
[289] Longfellow.
[290] Carlyle.
[291] Their grandmother was a Mademoiselle Clary, sister of Queen Desirée of Sweden.
[292] From “Days near Rome,” vol. ii.
[293] From “Days near Rome,” vol. ii.
[294] From “Central Italy.”
[295] From “Central Italy.”
[296] See vol. iii.
[297] Wife of a north-country baronet.
[298] Mary Howitt, aged 89, fulfilled her heart’s desire by also dying at Rome, Jan. 30, 1888, and, though a Catholic, was permitted to rest by her husband’s side in the Protestant cemetery. She never recovered the fatigue of a visit to the Pope. It was all made as easy as possible for her, on account of her great age, and the Duke of Norfolk was allowed to bring her in separately. “Adieu! we shall meet again in heaven,” said Leo XIII., on taking leave of her: a fortnight after she was dead.
[299] I have not been able to do this, as there is a prohibition in England against wearing foreign orders, dating from Elizabeth, who said, “My dogs shall wear nothing but my own collars.”
[300] I little thought at the time that Frank Crawford would turn out a distinguished and popular novelist: it was at Bombay that he met the original of “Mr. Isaacs.”
[301] The Misses Monk, daughters of the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol.
[302] Miss Clarke.
[303] From “South-Eastern France.”
[304] Of very humble origin himself, to court great personages had been the ruling passion of his life, and it had been a subject of extravagant pride to him that he had occasionally entertained this good-natured Princess at dinner at Pau.
[305] From “Walks in London.”
[306] I often saw Mademoiselle Bernhardt act afterwards, and was far less impressed by her, feeling the truth of the expression “Une tragédienne du Boulevard.”
[307] With whom afterwards I became great friends.
[308] The story of Count Piper is curious and highly honourable to him. He discovered that the late King Carl XV. was going to make a most unworthy and disgraceful marriage, and he wrote to him most strongly upon the subject. The king never forgave him, and made it impossible for him to stay in Sweden, but the cause of his disgrace was unknown, till the present king, Oscar, found the letter among his brother’s papers after his death. Count Piper was at once recalled, and given first-rate diplomatic posts.
[309] From “Walks in London.”
[310] From “Walks in London.”
[311] Daughter of John Braham, the singer. She married (1) John James Waldegrave, Esq.; (2) George-Edward, 7th Earl Waldegrave; (3) George Granville Harcourt, Esq., of Nuneham; (4) Chichester Fortescue, Lord Carlingford. When she was a child a gipsy foretold that she would marry first to please her parents, secondly for rank, thirdly for wealth, and fourthly to please herself.
[312] Eldest son of the Earl of Tankerville. See vol. iii.
[313] Lady Waterford, Lady Jane Ellice, and Lady Marian Alford.
[314] See vol. i.
[315] Joaquin Miller.
[316] See vol. i.
[317] Sir John Shaw Lefevre died at Margate.
[318] My cousin, Lady Elizabeth Adeane, née Yorke, had married Michael Biddulph, Esq., of Ledbury.
[319] See vol. iii.
[320] Constance-Gertrude, youngest daughter of the 2nd Duke of Sutherland.
[321] Maria, youngest daughter of Hon. Charles Tollemache, second wife (1833) of Charles Bruce, 2nd Earl of Ailesbury.
[322] Ada Maria Katherine, daughter of Hon. Frederick Tollemache, married (1868) Charles Hanbury Tracy, Baron Sudeley.
[323] Ham House has been greatly, perhaps too much restored since this, by the 8th Earl of Dysart.
[324] Feb. 17, 1671-2.
[325] Afterwards Dean of Winchester.
[326] Two thousand pounds and its interests for many years have (1900) never been repaid.
[327] Archbishop Trench.
[328] From “Southern Italy.”
[329] From “Southern Italy.”
[330] From “Southern Italy.”
[331] From “Southern Italy.”
[332] From “Southern Italy.”
[333] From “Southern Italy.”
[334] From “Southern Italy.”
[335] From “Southern Italy.”
[336] From “Southern Italy.”
[337] From “Southern Italy.”
[338] This story was told to me by Susan, Lady Sherborne, who heard it from Lord Clanwilliam.
[339] From “Southern Italy.”
[340] From “Southern Italy.”
[341] From “Southern Italy.”
[342] From “Southern Italy.”
[343] Eleanor Paul, who had lived with my sister, and who afterwards lived with her brother, George Paul.
[344] Frank Miles died July 1891.
[345] Marquis de Sade.
[346] Afterwards Lady Rumbold.
[347] Rev. Joseph Wolff, missionary to Palestine, died 1862.
[348] Doña Emilia de Guyangos. See vol. iv.
[349] Mrs. Thellusson died January 23, 1881, leaving a most loving memory behind. Swinburne wrote a pretty poem on her death.
[350] Afterwards married to Robert-George, Lord Windsor.
[351] See vol. ii.
[352] Dr. Grey died, aged 77, January 1888.
[353] Isabella Henrietta Poyntz, 8th Countess of Cork.
[355] Yet, M. Vivier told Madame du Quaire that, when he first went to see Mrs. Grote, he found her sitting high aloft in a tree, dressed in a coachman’s brown greatcoat with capes, playing on the violoncello.
[356] Mr. Grote was ever imperturbably placid. When Jenny Lind was asked what she thought of Mr. Grote, she said he was “like a fine old bust in a corner which one longed to dust.” Mrs. Grote dusted him.
[357] This was my last sight of Lady Ruthven, who died April 5, 1885, aged 96.
[358] “Pensées Philosophiques,” 1747.
[359] Since republished in “Biographical Sketches.”
[360] The Stanleys’ dear old nurse.
[361] From “Biographical Sketches.”
[362] Lord Romilly perished in his burning house in Egerton Gardens, London, in May 1891, having never recovered the death of his most sweet wife several years before.
[363] Hon. W. Owen Stanley, brother of the 2nd Lord Stanley of Alderley, and of my aunt Mrs. Marcus Hare.
[364] Mary Louisa, daughter of Henry, 5th Duke of Grafton.
[365] Edward Gordon Douglas Pennant, Baron Penrhyn, who had succeeded to Penrhyn Castle in right of his first wife, Miss Dawkins Pennant.
[366] Her grandmother, Lady Ravensworth, was my grandmother’s only sister.
[367] From “Southern Italy.”
[368] From “Southern Italy.”
[369] From “Southern Italy.”
[370] Olympia, Countess von Usedom, eldest daughter of Sir John Malcolm. See vols. i. and iii.
[371] This Patriarch died of the influenza in 1892.
[372] From “Venice.”
[373] Dr. Walter Smith on Robertson of Irvine.
[374] Philip-Henry, 4th Earl Stanhope, died 1855.
[375] Dr. Buckland afterwards told Lady Lyndhurst that there was one thing even worse than a mole, and that was a blue-bottle fly.
[376] From “Walks in London.”
[377] From “Holland.”
[378] From “Holland.”
[379] The results of this tour appeared in the first part of my little volume, “Sketches in Holland and Scandinavia.”
[380] Second daughter of the 1st Duke of Sutherland, born 1797; she wrote to me several times after this, and showed me great kindness, but we never met again. She died November 11, 1891.
[381] Lowell.
[382] Gray’s “Enigmas of Life.”
[383] John Gidman, her most unworthy husband, the cloud and scourge and sorrow of her life. He had (fortunately for me) kept away during her illness, and did not wish to have anything to do with her funeral, or even to attend it. Immediately after, he removed all her possessions to Cheshire, and soon married again, dying six years after.
[384] Madame de Staël.
[385] Princess Elizabeth of Wied; translated by Sir Edwin Arnold.
[386] Thomasine Jocelyn, widow of the 4th Earl of Donoughmore.
[387] From “Studies in Russia.”
[388] From “Studies in Russia.”
[389] From “Studies in Russia.”
[390] From “Studies in Russia.”
[391] From “Studies in Russia.”
[392] From “Studies in Russia.”
[393] From “Studies in Russia.”
[394] I published some articles on Mrs. Duncan Stewart and her remarkable life in Good Words for 1892. They have been republished in “Biographical Sketches.”
[395] From “North-Eastern France.”
[396] From “North-Eastern France.”
[397] From “North-Eastern France.”
[398] The third boy, Henry Wood, died in London, June 6, 1886. The second son, Francis, died at Eton, March 17, 1889. The beloved eldest son, Charlie, died at Hickledon, September 1890.
[399] My second-cousin, Lady Elizabeth Williamson, daughter of the 1st Earl of Ravensworth.
[400] Lady Elizabeth Lindsay, widow of Philip, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke[.] Her eldest daughter, Lady Mexborough, was the mother of Lady Sarah Savile, who married Hon. Sir James Lindsay.
[401] Frances-Anne, daughter and heiress of Sir Henry Vane Tempest, who (1819) became the second wife of the 3rd Marquis of Londonderry.
[402] From “Walks in London.”
[403] From “South-Western France.”
[404] From “South-Western France.”
[405] From “South-Western France.”
[406] From “South-Western France.”
[407] From “South-Western France.”
[408] From “South-Western France.”
[409] From “South-Western France.”
[410] William Schomberg, 8th Marquis of Lothian, died 1870, aged 38.
[411] From “Sussex.”
[412] Very soon after I was at Ludlow, gentle Lady Mary Clive lost all her powers by a paralytic seizure, and she died in the summer of 1889
[413] William Reginald Courtenay, 12th Earl of Devon.
[414] Clough.
[415] W. H. Smith, 1844.
[416] Dante, Purg. III.
[417] “Le Lys dans la Vallée.”
[418] Ben Jonson.
[419] Monckton Milnes.
[420] From “Sussex.”