Chapter 48

FOOTNOTES:[1]J. Greenleaf Whittier, “Letters.”[2]I had to pay a duty of 10 per cent, even on all my own money and savings, as it had been unfortunately invested in her name.[3]Archibald, eldest son of John Archibald Colquhoun of Killermont, N.B., and Chartwell, near Westerham, in Kent.[4]Archie Colquhoun died at Nice in the following spring.[5]From “The Story of Two Noble Lives.”[6]These rooms have been entirely altered since Lady Waterford’s death.[7]Mary Amelia, widow of the first Marquis.[8]Daughter of the 5th Earl of Balcarres.[9]James Edward, 2nd Earl.[10]Afterwards Dean of Wells.[11]The picture was exhibited in the spring of 1845, and was sent straight to Hurstmonceaux from the Exhibition.[12]Our cousins Sir Alexander and Lady Taylor. See vol. iii.[13]The Rev. Henry Liddell, brother of my great-uncle Ravensworth, and whose wife, Charlotte Lyon, was niece of my great-grandmother, Lady Anne Simpson.[14]Don Juan died in 1880, leaving his last great work, the restoration of Leon Cathedral, unfinished.[15]This was my first meeting with Everard Primrose, afterwards for many years one of my most intimate friends. He had a cold manner, which was repellant to those who did not know him well, and in conversation he was tantalising, for nothing came out of him at all comparable to what one knew was within. But no young man’s life was more noble, stainless, and full of highest hopes and purposes. He died—to my lasting sorrow—of fever during the African campaign of 1885. His mother printed a memoir afterwards, which was a beautiful and simple portrait of his life—a very model of biographical truth.[16]It has since been entirely destroyed.[17]From “Paris.”[18]W. S. Landor.[19]Dr. Chalmers.[20]Wordsworth.[21]For these old friends of my mother,videvols. i. and iii.[22]This dear old lady (widow of a first cousin of my father’s) lived in uncomplaining poverty till 1891, and was a great pleasure to me. I was glad to be able to contribute to the support of her small establishment at Norbiton.[23]Since this was written the pictures have all been dispersed.[24]From “The Story of Two Noble Lives.”[25]Mrs. T. Erskine’s novel.[26]George Macdonald.[27]Lady Margaret Beaumont, whom I afterwards knew very intimately, and learnt to regard with ever-increasing esteem and affection, died, to my great sorrow, March 31, 1888.[28]Afterwards Lieutenant-General Henry Hope Crealock. He died May 1891.[29]The Mote has since been sold and its contents dispersed.[30]Mr. Hailstone of Walton Hall died 1890, his wife some years earlier. He bequeathed his topographical collections to the Chapter at York, where they are preserved as the “Hailstone Yorkshire Library.”[31]This church, the most interesting memorial of the Brontë life at Haworth, was wantonly destroyed in 1880-81.[32]Lady Salisbury’s description.[33]Told me by Lord Houghton.[34]Note added 1890.—Authorities now decide that this picture does not represent Mary at all, and it is certainly not, as formerly stated, by Zucchero, for Zucchero, who was never in England till the Queen was in captivity, never painted her.[35]Afterwards Lady Sherbrooke.[36]This was so for a long time. Then in about ten years several more editions were called for in rapid succession. One can never anticipate how it will be with books.[37]1890.—This was so for many years: then the sale of “Days near Rome” suddenly and unaccountably stopped.[38]From “Days near Rome”[39]Miss Margaret Foley died Dec. 1877.[40]Afterwards Lady Compton.[41]From “Days near Rome.”[42]From “Days near Rome.”[43]Perhaps the interest of these details is of the past, but I insert them because the conduct of the Sardinian Government is being rapidly forgotten, and I was at great pains in obtaining accurate statistics and verifying the facts mentioned.[44]From “Days near Rome.”[45]Afterwards Duchess of Marino.[46]Mother of the Duchess S. Arpino.[47]Shortly before this my publishers had given me a magnificently bound copy of “Walks in Rome,” with the desire that I would present it to Princess Margherita. I demurred to doing this, because, owing to the strictures which the book contains on the “Sardinian Government,” I thought it might be considered little less than an impertinence; but I told the Duchess S. Arpino, who was in waiting at the time, and she repeated it. The amiable Princess said, “I am sorry Mr. Hare does not appreciate us, but I should like my present all the same,” and the book was sent to her.[48]From “Days near Rome.”[49]From “Days near Rome.”[50]This quaint journey is described in the introductory chapter of “Days near Rome.”[51]From “Days near Rome.”[52]From “Days near Rome.”[53]From “Days near Rome.”[54]From “Days near Rome.”[55]From “Days near Rome.”[56]From “Days near Rome.”[57]From “Days near Rome.”[58]Miss Kate Malcolm, the last of her family, died, universally beloved, in May 1891.[59]From “Northern Italy.”[60]From “Northern Italy.”[61]Samuel Wilberforce.[62]Rev. Hugh Pearson, Rector of Sonning.[63]The house of William Wickham, who married my cousin Sophia Lefevre.[64]In 1884 this fine old property of the Needhams was sold to A. P. Heywood Lonsdale, Esq. (now Heywood), who is also owner of the neighbouring estate of Cloverly.[65]This old friend of my childhood died Dec. 1890, in her 99th year.[66]“Andrew, she has a face looks like a story,The story of the heavens looks very like her.”Beaumont and Fletcher,The Elder Brother.[67]From “The Story of Two Noble Lives.”[68]Afterwards Lady Harcourt.[69]This is much like the epitaph which Ruskin has placed on the grave of his father.[70]A rich farmer, the landlord of our Lime farm at Hurstmonceaux.[71]Mrs. Harford of Blaise Castle, third daughter of Baron de Bunsen.[72]From “Northern Italy.”[73]From “Northern Italy.”[74]From “Northern Italy.”[75]Beatrice, afterwards the first wife of Charles Stuart Wortley.[76]From “Days near Rome.”[77]From “Days near Rome.”[78]From “Days near Rome.”[79]From “Days near Rome.”[80]From “Days near Rome.”[81]From “Days near Rome.”[82]From “Days near Rome.”[83]From “Days near Rome.”[84]From “Days near Rome.”[85]From “Days near Rome.”[86]Daughter of Lord Howard de Walden, afterwards Duchess of Sermoneta.[87]From “Days near Rome.”[88]This excellent old Abbot was afterwards cruelly murdered at Rome.[89]From “Days near Rome.”[90]From “Days near Rome.”[91]From “Florence.”[92]Allthe women have fainted.[93]Sermon on Ezekiel.[94]From “Northern Italy.”[95]From “North-Eastern France.”[96]Afterwards known as “Sunday Hill.”[97]Fanny Blackett, Vicomtesse du Quaire, who died, universally beloved and regretted, in the spring of 1895.[98]Feb. 8, 1814.[99]Hon. E. Primrose, second son of the Duchess of Cleveland by her first marriage with Lord Dalmeny.[100]Cambry.[101]From “The Story of Two Noble Lives.”[102]From “The Story of Two Noble Lives.”[103]Eighth daughter of the 7th Earl of Wemyss. She died, deeply mourned and beloved, in 1891.[104]Author of “Rab and his Friends.”[105]Daughter of the 8th Earl of Cavan, afterwards Baroness von Essen.[106]From “The Story of Two Noble Lives.”[107]From “The Story of Two Noble Lives.”[108]John, second Duke of Argyll, immortalised by Pope.[109]Author of “Music and Morals,” &c.[110]From “Walks in London.”[111]From “Walks in London.”[112]From “Days near Paris.”[113]This was my first sight of the contentious and arbitrary essayist Abraham Hayward, whom I often saw afterwards. He was always interesting to meet, if only on account of his perverse acerbity. Constantly invited by a world which feared him, he was always determined to be listened to, and generally said something worth hearing.[114]From “Walks in London.”[115]From “Walks in London.”[116]Lady Victoria Liddell married Captain Edward Fisher, now Rowe.[117]John FitzPatrick, Baron Castletown of Upper Ossory.[118]From “Walks in London.”[119]Emily, wife of the 5th Earl Stanhope, died Dec. 31, 1873.[120]Evelyn Henrietta, daughter of R. Pennefather, Esq., afterwards 6th Countess Stanhope.[121]Daughter of Amos Meredith, Esq. She married, secondly, a son of the 4th Duke of Argyll.[122]Lady Harriet Pelham, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Chichester, wife of the 6th Earl of Darnley.[123]Tasso.[124]My real mother’s youngest sister Jane (see vol. i.). She married Edward, only son of the famous Lord Edward FitzGerald and of the beautiful Pamela. She lived till November 1891.[125]The family circle was broken up by the death of Mr. Carew in 1888, a few months after that of his eldest daughter.[126]I learnt to value Dean Church very much afterwards. The story of his beautiful and noble life is told in a wonderfully interesting “Memoir.”[127]William, afterwards 4th Earl of St. Germans, died Oct. 7, 1877.[128]Edward Granville, 3rd Earl of St. Germans, died 1877.[129]George, second son of the 2nd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, married Fanny Lucy, eldest daughter of Sir John Shelley.[130]Sophia, daughter of the 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire.[131]Hugh, 3rd Earl Fortescue.[132]The Queen of the Gipsies died in July 1883, at the age of eighty-six.[133]Her mother, Lady Stuart de Rothesay, was daughter of the 3rd Earl of Hardwicke.[134]Charles, 3rd Earl of Somers.[135]George Guy Greville, 4th Earl of Warwick, died Dec. 2, 1893.[136]I afterwards heard the same story, almost in the same words, from Lord Warwick himself.[137]from “The Story of Two Noble Lives.”[138]From “The Story of Two Noble Lives.”[139]Bk. vi. 73, 74.[140]Anne, wife of the 4th Earl of Warwick, daughter of Francis, 8th Earl of Wemyss and March.[141]My mother’s first cousin, Georgiana Liddell, had married Lord Bloomfield, formerly ambassador at Berlin and Vienna.[142]From “The Story of Two Noble Lives.”[143]I have heard Professor Owen tell this story himself.[144]Louisa, fourth daughter of 2nd Earl of Lucan.[145]John Patrick, 3rd Marquis of Bute.[146]Gwendoline Mary-Anne, eldest daughter of Lord Howard of Glossop.[147]Prior.[148]Sir Hedworth and Lady Elizabeth Williamson. The parents of both were first cousins of my mother.[149]My mother’s first cousin, Henry Liddell, 1st Earl of Ravensworth.[150]John Axel Fersen, making the tour of France at nineteen, was presented to the Dauphine, herself nineteen, in 1774. Throughout his friendship with her, the perfect reserve of a great gentleman and great lady was never broken.[151]In 1879 I told this story to the Crown Prince of Sweden and Norway, who took the trouble to verify facts and dates as to the Löwenjelms, &c., and found everything coincide.[152]Mrs., then Lady Pease, died, universally beloved and regretted, in 1892.[153]The 6th Earl of Fitzwilliam.[154]Lady Frances Douglas, daughter of the 18th Earl of Morton.[155]Eldest daughter and youngest son of Viscount Halifax.[156]Edward Carr Glyn, afterwards Vicar of Kensington, son of the 1st Baron Wolverton.[157]Mother of the 9th Duke of Bedford, a most charming and hospitable person. She died August 1874.[158]Lord Moira was created Marquis of Hastings 1816, and died at Malta, November 26, 1826.[159]“In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; then He openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction.”—Elihu in Job.[160]Charles, 2nd Earl Grey.[161]I have since heard this story as told by a Captain Campbell, and as having happened in Ireland near the Curragh. A similar story is told of two officers invited to the house of a Mr. T. near Dorchester. The appearance of the hostess at dinner was excused on plea of illness, and the younger guest, staring at the place where she would have sat, implored his elder friend to get him away from this devil-haunted place. An excuse of early parade was made, and as they were returning over the hills, the young man described the figure of “a lady with dripping hair wringing her hands.” Soon afterwards her body was found in the moat of the house. It was Mrs. T.

FOOTNOTES:

[1]J. Greenleaf Whittier, “Letters.”

[2]I had to pay a duty of 10 per cent, even on all my own money and savings, as it had been unfortunately invested in her name.

[3]Archibald, eldest son of John Archibald Colquhoun of Killermont, N.B., and Chartwell, near Westerham, in Kent.

[4]Archie Colquhoun died at Nice in the following spring.

[5]From “The Story of Two Noble Lives.”

[6]These rooms have been entirely altered since Lady Waterford’s death.

[7]Mary Amelia, widow of the first Marquis.

[8]Daughter of the 5th Earl of Balcarres.

[9]James Edward, 2nd Earl.

[10]Afterwards Dean of Wells.

[11]The picture was exhibited in the spring of 1845, and was sent straight to Hurstmonceaux from the Exhibition.

[12]Our cousins Sir Alexander and Lady Taylor. See vol. iii.

[13]The Rev. Henry Liddell, brother of my great-uncle Ravensworth, and whose wife, Charlotte Lyon, was niece of my great-grandmother, Lady Anne Simpson.

[14]Don Juan died in 1880, leaving his last great work, the restoration of Leon Cathedral, unfinished.

[15]This was my first meeting with Everard Primrose, afterwards for many years one of my most intimate friends. He had a cold manner, which was repellant to those who did not know him well, and in conversation he was tantalising, for nothing came out of him at all comparable to what one knew was within. But no young man’s life was more noble, stainless, and full of highest hopes and purposes. He died—to my lasting sorrow—of fever during the African campaign of 1885. His mother printed a memoir afterwards, which was a beautiful and simple portrait of his life—a very model of biographical truth.

[16]It has since been entirely destroyed.

[17]From “Paris.”

[18]W. S. Landor.

[19]Dr. Chalmers.

[20]Wordsworth.

[21]For these old friends of my mother,videvols. i. and iii.

[22]This dear old lady (widow of a first cousin of my father’s) lived in uncomplaining poverty till 1891, and was a great pleasure to me. I was glad to be able to contribute to the support of her small establishment at Norbiton.

[23]Since this was written the pictures have all been dispersed.

[24]From “The Story of Two Noble Lives.”

[25]Mrs. T. Erskine’s novel.

[26]George Macdonald.

[27]Lady Margaret Beaumont, whom I afterwards knew very intimately, and learnt to regard with ever-increasing esteem and affection, died, to my great sorrow, March 31, 1888.

[28]Afterwards Lieutenant-General Henry Hope Crealock. He died May 1891.

[29]The Mote has since been sold and its contents dispersed.

[30]Mr. Hailstone of Walton Hall died 1890, his wife some years earlier. He bequeathed his topographical collections to the Chapter at York, where they are preserved as the “Hailstone Yorkshire Library.”

[31]This church, the most interesting memorial of the Brontë life at Haworth, was wantonly destroyed in 1880-81.

[32]Lady Salisbury’s description.

[33]Told me by Lord Houghton.

[34]Note added 1890.—Authorities now decide that this picture does not represent Mary at all, and it is certainly not, as formerly stated, by Zucchero, for Zucchero, who was never in England till the Queen was in captivity, never painted her.

[35]Afterwards Lady Sherbrooke.

[36]This was so for a long time. Then in about ten years several more editions were called for in rapid succession. One can never anticipate how it will be with books.

[37]1890.—This was so for many years: then the sale of “Days near Rome” suddenly and unaccountably stopped.

[38]From “Days near Rome”

[39]Miss Margaret Foley died Dec. 1877.

[40]Afterwards Lady Compton.

[41]From “Days near Rome.”

[42]From “Days near Rome.”

[43]Perhaps the interest of these details is of the past, but I insert them because the conduct of the Sardinian Government is being rapidly forgotten, and I was at great pains in obtaining accurate statistics and verifying the facts mentioned.

[44]From “Days near Rome.”

[45]Afterwards Duchess of Marino.

[46]Mother of the Duchess S. Arpino.

[47]Shortly before this my publishers had given me a magnificently bound copy of “Walks in Rome,” with the desire that I would present it to Princess Margherita. I demurred to doing this, because, owing to the strictures which the book contains on the “Sardinian Government,” I thought it might be considered little less than an impertinence; but I told the Duchess S. Arpino, who was in waiting at the time, and she repeated it. The amiable Princess said, “I am sorry Mr. Hare does not appreciate us, but I should like my present all the same,” and the book was sent to her.

[48]From “Days near Rome.”

[49]From “Days near Rome.”

[50]This quaint journey is described in the introductory chapter of “Days near Rome.”

[51]From “Days near Rome.”

[52]From “Days near Rome.”

[53]From “Days near Rome.”

[54]From “Days near Rome.”

[55]From “Days near Rome.”

[56]From “Days near Rome.”

[57]From “Days near Rome.”

[58]Miss Kate Malcolm, the last of her family, died, universally beloved, in May 1891.

[59]From “Northern Italy.”

[60]From “Northern Italy.”

[61]Samuel Wilberforce.

[62]Rev. Hugh Pearson, Rector of Sonning.

[63]The house of William Wickham, who married my cousin Sophia Lefevre.

[64]In 1884 this fine old property of the Needhams was sold to A. P. Heywood Lonsdale, Esq. (now Heywood), who is also owner of the neighbouring estate of Cloverly.

[65]This old friend of my childhood died Dec. 1890, in her 99th year.

[66]“Andrew, she has a face looks like a story,The story of the heavens looks very like her.”Beaumont and Fletcher,The Elder Brother.

[66]

“Andrew, she has a face looks like a story,The story of the heavens looks very like her.”Beaumont and Fletcher,The Elder Brother.

[67]From “The Story of Two Noble Lives.”

[68]Afterwards Lady Harcourt.

[69]This is much like the epitaph which Ruskin has placed on the grave of his father.

[70]A rich farmer, the landlord of our Lime farm at Hurstmonceaux.

[71]Mrs. Harford of Blaise Castle, third daughter of Baron de Bunsen.

[72]From “Northern Italy.”

[73]From “Northern Italy.”

[74]From “Northern Italy.”

[75]Beatrice, afterwards the first wife of Charles Stuart Wortley.

[76]From “Days near Rome.”

[77]From “Days near Rome.”

[78]From “Days near Rome.”

[79]From “Days near Rome.”

[80]From “Days near Rome.”

[81]From “Days near Rome.”

[82]From “Days near Rome.”

[83]From “Days near Rome.”

[84]From “Days near Rome.”

[85]From “Days near Rome.”

[86]Daughter of Lord Howard de Walden, afterwards Duchess of Sermoneta.

[87]From “Days near Rome.”

[88]This excellent old Abbot was afterwards cruelly murdered at Rome.

[89]From “Days near Rome.”

[90]From “Days near Rome.”

[91]From “Florence.”

[92]Allthe women have fainted.

[93]Sermon on Ezekiel.

[94]From “Northern Italy.”

[95]From “North-Eastern France.”

[96]Afterwards known as “Sunday Hill.”

[97]Fanny Blackett, Vicomtesse du Quaire, who died, universally beloved and regretted, in the spring of 1895.

[98]Feb. 8, 1814.

[99]Hon. E. Primrose, second son of the Duchess of Cleveland by her first marriage with Lord Dalmeny.

[100]Cambry.

[101]From “The Story of Two Noble Lives.”

[102]From “The Story of Two Noble Lives.”

[103]Eighth daughter of the 7th Earl of Wemyss. She died, deeply mourned and beloved, in 1891.

[104]Author of “Rab and his Friends.”

[105]Daughter of the 8th Earl of Cavan, afterwards Baroness von Essen.

[106]From “The Story of Two Noble Lives.”

[107]From “The Story of Two Noble Lives.”

[108]John, second Duke of Argyll, immortalised by Pope.

[109]Author of “Music and Morals,” &c.

[110]From “Walks in London.”

[111]From “Walks in London.”

[112]From “Days near Paris.”

[113]This was my first sight of the contentious and arbitrary essayist Abraham Hayward, whom I often saw afterwards. He was always interesting to meet, if only on account of his perverse acerbity. Constantly invited by a world which feared him, he was always determined to be listened to, and generally said something worth hearing.

[114]From “Walks in London.”

[115]From “Walks in London.”

[116]Lady Victoria Liddell married Captain Edward Fisher, now Rowe.

[117]John FitzPatrick, Baron Castletown of Upper Ossory.

[118]From “Walks in London.”

[119]Emily, wife of the 5th Earl Stanhope, died Dec. 31, 1873.

[120]Evelyn Henrietta, daughter of R. Pennefather, Esq., afterwards 6th Countess Stanhope.

[121]Daughter of Amos Meredith, Esq. She married, secondly, a son of the 4th Duke of Argyll.

[122]Lady Harriet Pelham, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Chichester, wife of the 6th Earl of Darnley.

[123]Tasso.

[124]My real mother’s youngest sister Jane (see vol. i.). She married Edward, only son of the famous Lord Edward FitzGerald and of the beautiful Pamela. She lived till November 1891.

[125]The family circle was broken up by the death of Mr. Carew in 1888, a few months after that of his eldest daughter.

[126]I learnt to value Dean Church very much afterwards. The story of his beautiful and noble life is told in a wonderfully interesting “Memoir.”

[127]William, afterwards 4th Earl of St. Germans, died Oct. 7, 1877.

[128]Edward Granville, 3rd Earl of St. Germans, died 1877.

[129]George, second son of the 2nd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, married Fanny Lucy, eldest daughter of Sir John Shelley.

[130]Sophia, daughter of the 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire.

[131]Hugh, 3rd Earl Fortescue.

[132]The Queen of the Gipsies died in July 1883, at the age of eighty-six.

[133]Her mother, Lady Stuart de Rothesay, was daughter of the 3rd Earl of Hardwicke.

[134]Charles, 3rd Earl of Somers.

[135]George Guy Greville, 4th Earl of Warwick, died Dec. 2, 1893.

[136]I afterwards heard the same story, almost in the same words, from Lord Warwick himself.

[137]from “The Story of Two Noble Lives.”

[138]From “The Story of Two Noble Lives.”

[139]Bk. vi. 73, 74.

[140]Anne, wife of the 4th Earl of Warwick, daughter of Francis, 8th Earl of Wemyss and March.

[141]My mother’s first cousin, Georgiana Liddell, had married Lord Bloomfield, formerly ambassador at Berlin and Vienna.

[142]From “The Story of Two Noble Lives.”

[143]I have heard Professor Owen tell this story himself.

[144]Louisa, fourth daughter of 2nd Earl of Lucan.

[145]John Patrick, 3rd Marquis of Bute.

[146]Gwendoline Mary-Anne, eldest daughter of Lord Howard of Glossop.

[147]Prior.

[148]Sir Hedworth and Lady Elizabeth Williamson. The parents of both were first cousins of my mother.

[149]My mother’s first cousin, Henry Liddell, 1st Earl of Ravensworth.

[150]John Axel Fersen, making the tour of France at nineteen, was presented to the Dauphine, herself nineteen, in 1774. Throughout his friendship with her, the perfect reserve of a great gentleman and great lady was never broken.

[151]In 1879 I told this story to the Crown Prince of Sweden and Norway, who took the trouble to verify facts and dates as to the Löwenjelms, &c., and found everything coincide.

[152]Mrs., then Lady Pease, died, universally beloved and regretted, in 1892.

[153]The 6th Earl of Fitzwilliam.

[154]Lady Frances Douglas, daughter of the 18th Earl of Morton.

[155]Eldest daughter and youngest son of Viscount Halifax.

[156]Edward Carr Glyn, afterwards Vicar of Kensington, son of the 1st Baron Wolverton.

[157]Mother of the 9th Duke of Bedford, a most charming and hospitable person. She died August 1874.

[158]Lord Moira was created Marquis of Hastings 1816, and died at Malta, November 26, 1826.

[159]“In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; then He openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction.”—Elihu in Job.

[160]Charles, 2nd Earl Grey.

[161]I have since heard this story as told by a Captain Campbell, and as having happened in Ireland near the Curragh. A similar story is told of two officers invited to the house of a Mr. T. near Dorchester. The appearance of the hostess at dinner was excused on plea of illness, and the younger guest, staring at the place where she would have sat, implored his elder friend to get him away from this devil-haunted place. An excuse of early parade was made, and as they were returning over the hills, the young man described the figure of “a lady with dripping hair wringing her hands.” Soon afterwards her body was found in the moat of the house. It was Mrs. T.

Back to Index Next