Since I closed these Memoirs my sister, Alice Meynell, has passed away.I feel that it is not out of place to record here the fact of her desire that I should reduce the mention of her name throughout the book. In the original text it had figured much oftener alongside of my own. Her wish to keep her personality always retired prevailed upon me to delete many an allusion to her which would have graced the text, greatly to its advantage.ELIZTH.BUTLER.31st December, 1922.
Since I closed these Memoirs my sister, Alice Meynell, has passed away.
I feel that it is not out of place to record here the fact of her desire that I should reduce the mention of her name throughout the book. In the original text it had figured much oftener alongside of my own. Her wish to keep her personality always retired prevailed upon me to delete many an allusion to her which would have graced the text, greatly to its advantage.
ELIZTH.BUTLER.
31st December, 1922.
FOOTNOTES:[1]The cattle plague was raging in England.[2]William I., afterwards German Emperor.[3]The severe Lady Superintendent.[4]Whose son, Mr. Alfred Pollard, C.B., became the head of the British Museum Printed Book Department.[5]Manning.[6]Poor young Inman, who was killed at the fight of Laing’s Nek, S. Africa.[7]“From Sketch-Book and Diary,” A. & C. Black.[8]I have just been told by an Irishman that the Valentia breed are trained forracing![9]“The Campaign of the Cataracts.”[10]The late Lord Kitchener.[11]Now King George V.[12]Our eldest daughter Elizabeth, now Mrs. Kingscote.[13]Some one has explained to me, with what authority I cannot tell, that “The Sailor King” gave this order to his officers with Royal tact, being well aware that they could no more stand, at that period of the dinner, than he could himself. So we sit.[14]To die during the World War.—E. B., 1921.[15]Our second son.[16]My daughter, Lady Gormanston, who completed and edited her father’s autobiography, has recorded in the After-word the circumstances of his passing.[17]Since dead.[18]Only a few survivors of the original division which I saw are left. (1916.)[19]In his little book, “A Galloper at Ypres” (Fisher Unwin), my son gives a clear account of his own experience of that battle.[20]Colonel the Hon. Richard Preston, whose book, “The Desert Mounted Corps,” is a masterpiece.
FOOTNOTES:
[1]The cattle plague was raging in England.
[1]The cattle plague was raging in England.
[2]William I., afterwards German Emperor.
[2]William I., afterwards German Emperor.
[3]The severe Lady Superintendent.
[3]The severe Lady Superintendent.
[4]Whose son, Mr. Alfred Pollard, C.B., became the head of the British Museum Printed Book Department.
[4]Whose son, Mr. Alfred Pollard, C.B., became the head of the British Museum Printed Book Department.
[5]Manning.
[5]Manning.
[6]Poor young Inman, who was killed at the fight of Laing’s Nek, S. Africa.
[6]Poor young Inman, who was killed at the fight of Laing’s Nek, S. Africa.
[7]“From Sketch-Book and Diary,” A. & C. Black.
[7]“From Sketch-Book and Diary,” A. & C. Black.
[8]I have just been told by an Irishman that the Valentia breed are trained forracing!
[8]I have just been told by an Irishman that the Valentia breed are trained forracing!
[9]“The Campaign of the Cataracts.”
[9]“The Campaign of the Cataracts.”
[10]The late Lord Kitchener.
[10]The late Lord Kitchener.
[11]Now King George V.
[11]Now King George V.
[12]Our eldest daughter Elizabeth, now Mrs. Kingscote.
[12]Our eldest daughter Elizabeth, now Mrs. Kingscote.
[13]Some one has explained to me, with what authority I cannot tell, that “The Sailor King” gave this order to his officers with Royal tact, being well aware that they could no more stand, at that period of the dinner, than he could himself. So we sit.
[13]Some one has explained to me, with what authority I cannot tell, that “The Sailor King” gave this order to his officers with Royal tact, being well aware that they could no more stand, at that period of the dinner, than he could himself. So we sit.
[14]To die during the World War.—E. B., 1921.
[14]To die during the World War.—E. B., 1921.
[15]Our second son.
[15]Our second son.
[16]My daughter, Lady Gormanston, who completed and edited her father’s autobiography, has recorded in the After-word the circumstances of his passing.
[16]My daughter, Lady Gormanston, who completed and edited her father’s autobiography, has recorded in the After-word the circumstances of his passing.
[17]Since dead.
[17]Since dead.
[18]Only a few survivors of the original division which I saw are left. (1916.)
[18]Only a few survivors of the original division which I saw are left. (1916.)
[19]In his little book, “A Galloper at Ypres” (Fisher Unwin), my son gives a clear account of his own experience of that battle.
[19]In his little book, “A Galloper at Ypres” (Fisher Unwin), my son gives a clear account of his own experience of that battle.
[20]Colonel the Hon. Richard Preston, whose book, “The Desert Mounted Corps,” is a masterpiece.
[20]Colonel the Hon. Richard Preston, whose book, “The Desert Mounted Corps,” is a masterpiece.
Typographical error corrected by the etext transcriber:Italian friend in a duett=> Italian friend in a duet {pg 3}