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INDEX 405
FACE PAGE
MRS. LISTER 203 From a painting by G. S. Newton.
ELEANOR, COUNTESS OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 331
EMILY EDEN 397 From a drawing by George Richmond.
We have been very much surprised by a letter from Miss Milbanke to Mary informing her she was engaged to marry Lord Byron, a "person of whose character she has had the best opportunity of judging, and who, as he merits her greatest esteem, possesses her strongest attachment." That last sentence certainly sounds very well, but, that she does not seem to be acting with her usual good sense is Mama's opinion, as by all accounts Lord Byron is not likely to make any woman very happy. It is particularly unlucky, at present, as Mary's letters to her about "Lara," the "Corsair," etc., have not expressed much admiration for their author....
Mary has just received Sarah's letter. You perhaps may not know that she is going to change her character to that of a good-natured shilly-shally fellow. She is also thoroughly to understand politics, and is studying Junius, and for want of better society is to get into great habits of intimacy with me. If we were not to change our characters sometimes, there would be rather a sameness in our lives.
George is going to Dropmore and Shottesbrook, but will return home to receive the Colviles, stay here a week longer, and then go for six weeks to Melbury.
Good-bye, my dearest Sister. Do not trouble yourself to answer my letters, as a letter to any part of this family does as well for the rest.
MY DEAR SISTER, Charlotte has had a good night by the account we received this morning. The baby is wonderfully well.
Lord Francis goes to Newmarket on Sunday, and I am to go to Earl's Court for a week, and George and Willy Osborne come here. It sounds as if we were going to play Puss in the Corner on a grand scale, but I shall be glad to get back to my corner again....
George writes me word that one story about Lady Caroline Lamb is, that the separation had been agreed upon, and the articles ready; that Lady Melbourne set out one morning from London to try and arrange matters, and on her arrival she found the happy couple at breakfast, and Lady Caroline drawling out--"William, some more muffin?"--and everything made up.
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