INDEX
Advertisement, a curious, [305]
Agnew, Sir William, [212]
Aidé, Mr. Hamilton, and his paintings, [191]
Ailesbury, Maria, Marchioness of, her appearance, economies, and one extravagance, [39]
Ainsworth, Harrison, [42]
Airlie, Countess of, and her garden of friendship, [244]-[245]
Albert Gate, Hudson’s house at, [293];
stone stags at, [164]
Aldershot in 1860, Bernal Osborne’s criticism on, [66]
Alexandra, Queen, [155];
her dogs, [233]
Algerian corsairs, a prisoner of, alive in 1854, [89]
Algiers in 1861, a letter on, from Cobden, [240]
Amelia, Princess, statue of George III. erected by, in Berkeley Square, [150]
American girl, the, her conquest of English society, [33]
Amusements and entertainments, recollections of, [246] et seq.
Anglo-American marriages, [30], [33]
Angoulème, Duchesse de, and her brother’s escape, [116], [119];
her Memoirs, [119]
Annesley, Lady (née Grant), famous portrait of, [188]
Apethorpe, needlework carpet at, [50]
Apsley House entertainments, forbidden ground to the Press, [27]-[28]
Aquarium, [249]
Architecture in London, eccentricities of, [140]-[141], [144]-[145]
Art in the Victorian era, [40]
Artist acquaintances, [188] et seq.
Ashburnham Iron Furnace, extinction of (1825), [282]
Ashburton, Lord, the late, and the English truffle, [131]
Ashley, Hon. Evelyn, and the Owl, [16]
Astley, Miss, and the customs, [120]
Atheism, Russian, story of, [302]
Atkyns, Mrs. (née Charlotte Walpole), her efforts to save the Dauphin (Louis XVII.), [110];
ingratitude of Louis XVIII., [111];
her Memorial at Ketteringham, a print of her in character, [112]-[113];
a letter from her to Mr. Perceval, [113]-[114]
Author, the, her bad handwriting, [71];
her long ride in the ’thirties, [233];
portraits of, and of her sister, [188], [189]
Bagot, Bishop, discards the wig, [268]
Bancroft, Sir Squire and Lady, souvenir of their retirement, [257]
Banks, Lady, her art treasures, [197], [200]
Bantling’s cure for fat, verses, etc., on, in the Owl, [17]-[18]
Bardelin, Chevalier de, his life in exile, [79];
before and after his marriage, and daughter, [80]
Bartolozzi, engraved benefit tickets by, [200]
Bath, Marquis of, and his election, [44]-[45]
Marquis of (late), and his wife, as hosts, [44]-[45]
Battersea Park, old nursery gardens near, [310]
Battle Abbey, its owners, [55]-[57], [59];
historical associations and surroundings of, [57];
relics from, fate of, [282]
Beaconsfield, Countess of (Mrs. Wyndham Lewis), [36], [72], [73], [155];
her dinner-parties, [71];
— Earl of (Disraeli), [51], [190];
letter from, on Henrietta Temple, [42];
great ladies befriending him, [68], [69];
early days of, [74];
his real views on politics and distrust of Gladstone, [75];
his motto, [70];
his friendship with the author and her brother, a letter showing, [73]-[74];
his marriage and devotion to his wife, [72]-[73];
his carelessness as to money, his tact, [73];
his death in Curzon Street, [154]
Bean, attack by, on Queen Victoria, [165]
Beauclerk, Lady Diana, her riding dress, [170]
Beaufort, Duchess of (a former), her “lover’s tragedy,” [169]-[170]
Bedford, Duke of, duel of, in Kensington Gardens (1822), [173]
— Paul, comedian, [256]
Belgrave Square, art treasures in, [207]
Belvoir Castle, lamps at, in former days, [272]
Bentinck, Lord George, his good looks, [50]-[51]
Berkeley Chapel, its famous incumbent, [150]
— Square, associations of, and notable inhabitants, [145], [150], [151]
Bernal, Mr., collection of, present-day value of, [184];
tragic death of his wife, ib.
Berri, Duchesse de, [98], [195]
Berry, the Misses, in Curzon Street, [154]
Bertall, caricaturist, [308]
Bessborough, Earl of, [163]
Best, Mr., duel of, with Lord Camelford, [174], [177]-[178]
Bewick, Thomas, drawings by, of gibbets, [277]
Bexhill, smuggling affray at (1828), [275]
Bill-heads, engraved, author’s collection of, [200]
Bird pets of the author, [234] et seq.
Bismarck, Count, on non-indispensableness, [20]
Blanchet, portrait of Prince Charles Edward by, its past and present owners, [194]
Blarenberghe, Von, snuff-box painted by, [209]
Blessington, Countess of, [179], [235]
Blomfield, Bishop, two stories of, [268]-[269]
Boileau, Sir Francis and Lady, Memorial set up by, to Mrs. Atkyns, [112]
Bookbindings in human skin, [279]-[280]
Bookplates, [257]
Borghese, Princess Pauline, sister of Napoleon I., [81]
Borrow family and the West Norfolk Regiment, [47]
Bourbon family, devotion inspired by, instances of, [98] et seq.
Bourgogne, Duchesse de, her portrait in a Sussex cottage, [183]
Bradlaugh, Mr., and the House of Commons, [301]
Braham, the singer, [39];
his singing of “The Midnight Review,” [94];
beauty of his voice, [262]
Brick Street, associations of, [153]
Brienne, Napoleon I.’s early days at, [84]
British Museum, Banks’ collection of engraved benefit tickets in, [200]
Brocket, Lady Holland’s impertinence at, [63]
Browne family of Cowdray, [183];
the curse on, stories of, [282] et seq.
“Brummell, Beau,” his house in Charles Street, [151]
Buckingham, Duke of, duel of, in 1822, [173]
Buckingham Palace, [165]
Buckinghamshire, Earl of, and his unwelcome baby girl, [49]
Buckner, portrait by, of the author, [189]
Bulstrode, literary associations of, [42]
Burdett, Sir Francis, [168]
Burgess, Mr. John, and his collections, [216]-[217]
Buried treasures in France, [102], [103], [105]
Burke, Edmund, his snub to the youthful Fox, [288]
Burney, Dr., and Nelson’s nightcap, [269]-[270]
Burnham, Norfolk, a Walpole property, [174]
Burton, Decimus, architect, [248]
Byron, Lord (the poet), on the sham funeral of Harriet Webster, [61]
Caldbeck Hill and the Battle of Hastings, [57]
Camber Castle, smuggling affray at (1838), [275]
Cambridge House, Lady Palmerston’s parties at, [65]
Camelford, first Lord (Thomas Pitt), verses by, on the lovely Lepell (Lady Hervey), [178]
— second Lord, his will preserved at Wolterton, occasion of its making, [174]-[178];
his burial place, [178];
his family, ib.
Camoys, Sir John, and his wife, sarcophagus of, at Trotton, [286]
Campbell, Sir Neil, [85]
Cardigan, Countess of, her vis-à-vis carriage, [172]
Carnarvon, Earl of, Napoleonic relic owned by, [80]-[81];
other treasures, [187]
Carriages, former magnificence of, in Hyde Park, [172]
Carte, Mr. Thomas, and the Pretender’s negotiations with Sir R. Walpole, [317] et seq.
Casanova, stormy meeting with Lord Orford at Vienna, [47];
his hasty temper, [48]
Cassilis, Lord, quaint mistake concerning, [38]
“Castle” rule in Ireland, Bernal Osborne’s views on, [77]
Catherine II., Empress of Russia, [208]
Cattermole, George, and John Burgess, [216]
Cavour and his methods, [341]
Caylus, Madame de, lines on her dog’s collar, [232]
Cerito in social life, [254]-[255]
“Chaff” and flippancy in modern gatherings, [23]-[24]
Cham, caricaturist, [308]
Chambers, George, and his paintings, [194]
Chambord, Comte de (Henry V.), his appearance and character, [99]
Changes and survivals, [265] et seq.
Chantrey, Sir Francis, works done by, in Curzon Street, [153]
Charles I. and Hyde Park, [162]
Charles II., [285]
Charles X. (Comte d’Artois), [83], [95];
portrait of the old Pretender mistaken for, [195]-[196]
Charles Street, curiosities of, [145], [152];
derivation of the name, [151];
notable inhabitants, [150]-[151]
Chatham, Earl of, [198]
Chelsea in 1826, [311]
Cheltenham, a Sedan-chair used at, in the ’sixties, [128]
Chesterfield, Lady, her friendship with Lord Beaconsfield, [69]
Chinese Ambassador, mistaken for his own wife, [38]
Chippendale, [212] et seq.;
characteristics of his work, [214]-[215]
Church “restorations,” nineteenth-century effects of, [286]-[287]
Churchill, Lord Randolph, and the Fourth Party, [18];
association of, with the Primrose League, [19];
as conversationalist, [19];
his personality, portraits, and caricatures, what he really said at time of his political fall, [20]-[21]
Cigars, when introduced into England, [138]
Cigarettes, as making for temperance, [137], [138];
origin of, [138]
Cipriani, engraved tickets by, [200]
Cleveland, Duke of (Sir Harry Vane), one-time owner of Battle Abbey, [55], [56], [59]
— Duchess of (née Paulet), her detestation of slang, [38]
— Duchess, the late, and Battle Abbey visitors, public, [55];
and personal, [57]
— Duchess of, on her visit to Holland House in youth, [60]-[61]
Clive, a dweller in Berkeley Square, [151]
Cobden, Richard, [242];
his dislike of Palmerston, [67];
his discovery of a French painting, [182]-[184];
his home in Sussex, [289]
— letters from, on Algiers, [240]-[242];
on the author’s silkworms, [243]
“Coliseum,” the, and its attractions, [284]
Comfort, rise in standard of, [311]-[312]
Conjuring, Houdin’s feats, [259]-[260]
Constitution Hill, and its associations, [165];
old name of, [166]
Continental travelling in old days, difficulties and discomforts of, [120], [126], [127], [130];
the early days of railways, [129]
Conversation a lost art, [23], [26]-[27]
Conyngham, Marquis of, the late, [210]
Cooper, Thomas Sidney, as scene-painter, [194]
Corder, William, the “Red Barn” murderer, and his skin, [279]
Corrigan, Tom, and Bernal Osborne’s repartee, [3], [4]
Cortachy, “garden of friendship” at, lines on, by Lord Sherbrooke, [244]-[245]
Cossé-Brissac, Due de, last lover of the Du Barry, his fate, [107]
Costessey Hall, the Jerninghams of, [108]
Couder, sketches by, of Napoleon I., [82]
Country houses of England, a unique national possession, [41];
utilised by authors, [42]
— old-time self-dependence of, [266]-[267]
Country houses as political forces in former days, [42], [44];
why so no longer, [43]
Coutts Bank, jewellery of emigrés still unclaimed at, [109]
Coventry, Earl of (husband of Miss Gunning), and the abolition of Mayfair, [152]-[153]
Cowdray, ruins, stones and relics of, [183], [282] et seq.
Cowley, Countess of (temp. William IV.), wedding of, [198]-[201]
Cowper, Countess, her recipe for a successful ball, [152]
Cox, David, as scene-painter, [194]
Crayfish, author’s attempt to acclimatise, [132]
Creevy, Mr., [168]
Crinoline, [156]
Croome, needlework carpet at, [50]
Cruikshank, George, [143]
Cumming, Miss Gordon, her conversation, an amusing example, [24]-[25]
Curzon, Lady Georgiana, afterwards Duchess of Beaufort, a pet of William IV., [197]-[198];
her story of a wedding, [198]-[199]
Curzon Street, highway robbery in (1889), [149];
notable inhabitants of, [153]-[154]
Customs officers, [274]-[275];
murder of, at Poole, [275]
Dacheux, Mr. Peter Lewis, a schoolfellow of Napoleon I., at Lynn, [80]
Daily Telegraph founded, [304]
Dance, Sir Charles, his steam cars, [294]
Dandies of the past, [158]
Dangstein, [238]
Darwin, Mr. Charles, a talk with, [239]
Davis, Mr. Frederick, and his son, [208]-[211]
Day, Mr., of Norwich, a loyal banker, [114]
Dayes, military prints drawn by, [205]
Delane, Mr., of the Times, [28]
Demidoff, Prince, and Napoleon’s old gardener, [87]
Democracy, English, Lord Beaconsfield’s views on, [75]
Devis, Arthur, paintings by, [181]
Devonshire, Duchess of, [45]
Duke of, [195]
Dillon family and the Dauphin (Louis XVII.), [109]
Dogs owned by the author, [229] et seq.;
their graves and epitaphs, [232]
— of Queen Alexandra, [232]-[233]
D’Orsay, Count, dandyism of, [171]-[172];
lithographs after his drawings, [189]-[100];
a match for Lady Holland, [62]
Downing Street, historic scene in, [180]
Drewitt brothers, story of, [277]-[278]
Du Barry, Madame, her missing jewellery, [103]-[104];
how she came to her end, [104] et seq.
Dubois, famous table by, [208], [210]
Duelling, slow extinction of, in England, [173]
Dumb-bell gallery at Knole, [223]
Duncannon, Lord, afterwards Earl of Bessborough, and the improvement in the Green Park, [163]
Dunford, Cobden’s Sussex home, [289]
East Anglian folklore, [314]
Egan, Pierce, [143]
Eglinton Tournament, [305];
Napoleon III. present at, [306]
Egmont, sixth Earl of, new house built by, at Cowdray, [284]
Egypt, evacuation of, [76]
Elba, Island of, Napoleon I. at, [84] et seq.
Election souvenirs, political squibs, etc., [2], [4], [6], [7]
Electric light, early days of, [144]
Elizabeth, Princess, daughter of George III., her paper cuttings, [197]
Elwin, Mr. Whitwell, on Thomas Carte, [317]
English furniture, eighteenth-century, no representative public collection of, [211]
Eridge Castle, Lady Holland’s visit to, [62];
large silhouettes at, [186];
mysterious passage from, [274];
park, smugglers’ caves in, [274]
Evans’ supper rooms, a visit to, [258]
Evelyn, John, mention of stage scenery by, [195]
Exhibition of 1851, [258]
Fabry, Baroness de, her parentage, [85]
Falmouth, Charles, Earl of, [151]
Family portraits owned by the author, [179] et seq.
Farren, Miss Nelly, [251]
Fauveau, Mademoiselle Félicie de, sculptress, her devotion to the Bourbons, [98]-[100]
Fersen, Count, his devotion to Marie Antoinette, [101]
FitzGerald, Edward, [127]
Flags of Napoleon I. at Elba, present location of, [88]-[89]
Florence, a diorama at, [246]
Flower, Sir William, his letter on the author’s pet choughs, [237]
Footmen, running, stories of, [145]-[148]
Foreign manners and customs, old-time English dislike to, [36]
Fox, Charles James, [60];
his first seat, [280]
Fragonard’s “Escarpolette,” print of, [205];
replica of, at Hertford House, [206]
Franco-German war, caricatures of and skits on, [307]
French art, past and present estimates of, [182]-[184];
eighteenth-century books at Highclerc, [186]-[187];
furniture, Jones collection of, [206]
French panelling, fine examples of, set up in London house, [206]-[207]
Friday, Napoleon I.’s superstitions as to, [84]
Frotté, Vicomte de, a brave French royalist, [98]
Fulham and its market gardens, [310]-[311]
Fuller, Dr., and the crinoline, [156];
family, source of its wealth, [281]-[282]
Furniture supports, a curious set of, [221]
Gambling, [299]
Gardening, a letter on, from Cobden, [240]-[242];
modern books on, [244];
old gardens of friendship, lines on, by Lord Sherbrooke, [244]-[245]
“Gazette,” derivation of, [304]
statue of, formerly in Berkeley square, [150]
robbed on Hay Hill, [148]-[149]
Géramb, Baron de, and the hussars, his end as Trappist Procureur-Général, [170]-[171]
Gibbets, pictures of, [277]
Girodet, sketches by, of Napoleon I., [82]
Gladstone, Rt. Hon. W. E., a bad portrait of, one view of, [14], [15];
as a subject of caricature, [6];
Lord Beaconsfield’s distrust of, verbal jugglery, [75]-[76];
Bernal Osborne’s apt nickname for, [76]-[77];
Mr. Orrock’s reply to, [212]-[213]
Glasse, Mrs., her famous cookery book, [187]
Glenesk, Lord, and the Owl, [16]
Goethe, his favourite flower, [86]
Goodall, Messrs., and the first series of Christmas cards, [202]
Goodwood House, coming-of-age festivities at, of the present Duke of Richmond, [46];
“Lion dogs of China” bred at, [229]-[230]
Gordon, General C. G., death of, cartoon on, directed against Gladstone, [7]
Gorst, Sir John, and the Fourth Party, [18]
Goschen, Viscount, and Lord Randolph Churchill, [21]
Gossip and scandal in newspapers, an instance of, [305]
Gould, Sir F. Carruthers, his political caricatures, [7]
Grange, the, Hants, English truffles at, [131]-[132]
Grant, Sir Francis, and the red-cloak craze in portraits, [188];
portraits of the author and her sister by, ib.
Graves, Hon. Henry, portrait of the author by, [189]
Great Eastern steamship, its builder, [295]
Green, Paddy, and Horace Walpole’s “Opera Pass,” [253]-[254]
Green Park, old Ranger’s Lodge in, [163]
Gregory, Sir William, as cat purveyor, [228]
Greville, Mr. Charles, his nickname, [258]
Grévin, caricaturist, [308]
Grieve, George, destroyer of Madame du Barry, [104] et seq.
Grieves, Mr. Mackenzie, the late, a well-known figure in Paris society, [309]-[310]
Groome, Archdeacon Hindes (the late), [127];
Misses, two survivals noted by, [127]-[128];
Mrs., and the Cheltenham Sedan-chair, [128]
Grosvenor Square, No. [9], drawing-room in, [152]
Grote, Mrs., her claim to Norman descent, [56]
Guinea-pigs as a table dish, [15]
Gurney, Mr., his steam coaches, [294]
Guy Fawkes celebrations, [143]
Haliburton, Lord, [315]
Hambro, Mr., [254]
Hamilton, Emma, Lady, cabinets once owned by, [220]
Hammersley and Morland, bankers of Madame du Barry, [104]
Hammersmith, its nursery gardens and fine fruit, [310]
Hancock’s steam omnibus, [294]
Hanged man’s hand, curative power ascribed to, [277]-[278]
Hanging in chains, [275], [277];
the last case of, [276]
Hanson, Mr., and others associated with the American “Dauphin,” [116]
Harcourt, Sir William, and the Owl, [17];
his mot on “The Souls,” [15]
Harold, King, and the battle of Hastings, [56], [57]-[58]
Hastings, the battle of, [57]-[58]
Haversham, Lord and Lady, artistic tastes of, [152]
Hawkins, Mr., art collector, his eccentricities, [211]
Hay, Lady Emily, afterwards Lady Emily Peel, marriage of, [27]
Hay Hill, inn sign near, [148];
robberies on, eighteenth century, [148]-[149]
Hayward, Mr. Abraham, and the Owl, [17];
his Art of Dining, [130];
his powers of port wine drinking, [136]
Henniker, Hon. Mary and Hon. Helen, [314]-[315]
Herbert, Sir R., [226]
Hertford, Marquis, as collector, [184];
Hervey, Lord, and his lovely wife, [178]
Hewgill, Captain, military prints published by, [205]
Higgins, Mr., the tailor, and the word “Piccadilly,” [154]
Highclerc Castle, Napoleonic relic at, [80]
Highwaymen in Mayfair, [148]-[150]
Hinchingbrooke, [45]
Hogarth, William, mise en scène of his “Mariage à la Mode,” [155];
paintings by, at Vauxhall, [247]
Holard, Monsieur, Napoleon’s gardener, his tales of his imperial master, [84] et seq.,
Holland, Lady (née Vassall), her first husband and life at Battle Abbey, [59];
her elopement and marriage with Lord Holland, [60];
her court at Holland House, [60], [63];
her kinship with the author, [61];
sham funeral of her daughter, [61];
her ways and insolence, [61]-[63];
some pleasanter traits, [63]-[64];
a clever criticism, [64]
— Lord, and his wife, [60];
his character, [64]
Holland House, duel fought behind, [174];
in Lady Holland’s days, [60] et seq.
Home Rule movement, the, and Mr. Gladstone, [77]
Hone, Nathaniel, miniature by, of Horace Walpole, [179]
Hooker, Sir Joseph, [239]
Horsham gaol, scene of the last “pressing to death,” [278]-[279]
Horsley, Mr. J. C., R.A., designer of the first Christmas card, [201]
Hortense, Beauharnais, Queen of Holland, and the hortensia blooms, [85]-[86]
Hortensia or hydrangea plant, [85];
some famous lovers of, [86]
Hôtel de Ménars, boiserie of, now in London, [207]
Houdin, Robert, conjurer, a story of, [259]-[260]
Houghton, Lord, [155];
and the Owl, [17]
Hudson, Mrs., and her Malapropism, [37];
Mr., the “railway king,” [293]
Hunt, William, and his paintings, [193]-[194];
Ruskin on, [194]
Hussar, the English, the creator of, see Géramb
Hyde Park, carriages in, [172];
deer hunts and poaching in, [161];
duelling in, [173];
gallows in, [164];
once royal property, [162];
Peel’s scheme for adorning, [163];
railway station, proposed, in, [165];
riots in, [166];
smoking in, [137];
walnut avenue formerly in, [173]
Hyde Park Corner, [164]
Ibbetson, engraved tickets by, [200]
Illustrated London News, [303]
Inn signs in Mayfair, [145], [148]
Invitation cards, author’s collection of, [10]
Irish question, Bernal Osborne’s views on, [77]
Ironwork railings, past and present designs in, [142]
— Sussex, author’s collection of, [281]
Irving, Sir Henry, letter from, with a bookplate, [257]
Italian political caricatures, [8]
Jacobean oak furniture, how to recognise, [223]
James, Lord, of Hereford, his pleasant shooting-parties, [190]
James III. (the Pretender, q.v.), letter from, to Mr. Carte, [340]
“Jean III.,” descendant of Naundorff, [117]
Jerningham family, the, of Costessey Hall, French connections of, [108]-[109]
Jersey, Countess of, and Disraeli, [68]
Jewish marriage, a, witnessed by author, [262]-[263]
John Bull newspaper, [304]
Johnston, Mr. Butler, [25]
Jones collection of French furniture, [206]
— Inigo, architect, [164], [194]
Jordan, Mrs., silhouette of, [197]
Josephine, Empress, [81], [83]
Jubilee of 1887, souvenirs of, [10]
Kensington Gardens, duel in, [173]
— Palace, old prints of London Parks in, [160]
Ketteringham Hall, and Mrs. Atkyns, [110]-[111];
her memorial erected by its present owners, [112]
Kirk, military prints engraved by, [205]
Kleist, Field-Marshal Baron von, and Napoleon I., [92]
Knole, art treasures of, and curiosities, [223]-[225]
Knox, Rev. Mr., of Trotton, [284]
Kourakin, Prince, and the Tilsit table, [209]
Lamb, Mr., at Eglinton Tournament, [306]
Landseer, Sir Edwin, gift from, [231]
Lansdowne passage, the bar in, and its raison d’être, [149]
Larabit, Monsieur, on Napoleon in Elba, [89]
Largillière, portrait by, strange vicissitudes of, [183]
Larochejaquelein, General, dying confidence to, of the Duchesse d’Angoulême, [116]
La Rouérie, Marquis de, a gallant Chouan leader, [98]
Launay, Nicholas de, famous print by, [205]
Leamington, Mr. Burgess’s art treasures at, [217]
Lecourbe, General, and his reconciliation with Napoleon I., [90] et seq.
Leg-iron of hanged man, owned by author, [275]-[276]
Legoux, engraved benefit tickets by, [200]
Leicester, last case of hanging in chains at (1834), [276]
Leighton, Lord (the late), [190]
Lennox, Lady Alexandra, portrait of, by Graves, [189]
— Lord Alexander Gordon, on George Payne and his respect for religion, [53]
— Lord Henry, and his slang, [38]
Lepell, “Molly” (Lady Hervey), verses on, [178]
Lewin, derivation of name, according to Mrs. Grote, [56]
Link extinguishers, [152]
Lion dogs of China, [229]-[230]
Lions comiques, [252]
Locker, Mr. Frederick, verses by, on St. James’s Street, [158]-[159]
Lockwood, Sir Frank, New Year’s cards designed by, [7]
Lombard, Pierre, and his daughter, ancestors of the Walpoles, [315]
London, architectural changes in, [140] et seq.;
Madame du Barry in, [105];
Sunday demonstrations in, [166]
— parks, hunting in, [160]-[161];
old prints of, [160];
a proud proprietor of, [162];
wild life in, to-day, [161]-[162]
— streets, noises in, past and present, [142];
vanishing characteristics of, [142] et seq.
Londonderry, Marchioness of, her stately receptions, and friendship for Disraeli, [69];
her crinoline, [156]
Long, Mr., notabilities met at his house, [254]
— Rt. Hon. Walter, and the true text of Lord R. Churchill’s exclamation on hearing that his resignation had been accepted, [21]
Longchamps, [309]
Longleat, [44];
pleasures of visits to, [45]
Lonsdale, Earl of, and his postillions, [11]
Louis, Dauphin of France (Louis XVII.), attempted rescues of, the problem of his fate, and his impersonators, [109] et seq.
Louis XV., [102], [106], [107]
Louis XVIII. and the dog of Mme. de Caylus, [232];
ingratitude of, to Mrs. Atkyns, [111]
Louisa, Queen of Prussia, her favourite flower, [86];
and Napoleon I., [92]
Loutherbourg, De, and his scene-painting, [194]
Louveciennes, residence of Madame du Barry, [105];
alleged buried treasure at, [106]
Lowe, Sir Hudson, and Napoleon I., [94]
Lunatics, care of, past and present, [165]-[166]
Lyndhurst, Lord, [73]
Lynn, a schoolfellow of Napoleon I. at, [80]
Lytton, Sir G. Bulwer, his house in Charles Street and its Pompeiian room, [151]
Macirone, Colonel, his steam car, [294]
Mallock, Mr. W. H., a dog’s epitaph by, [232]
Malmaison, Napoleon at, [84];
his gardener’s stories, [85], [87]
Manning, Mr., his travels in the East, his passport from Napoleon I., and the sequel in St. Helena, [93]-[94]
Marble Arch, the, [164]
Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, tragedy of her fate, [82], [100] et seq.
Marie Louise, Empress, a glimpse of, [81]-[82]
Marlborough, Duke of (about 1770), his match with a running footman, [147]
Mayfair, the original, abolition of, [152]-[153];
Melbourne, Earl of, and Lady Holland, [63]
Menus, author’s collection of, [9], [10]
Midhurst, its arms and associations, [277]
“Midnight Review, The,” poem, by von Seidlitz, two versions of, [94] et seq.
Military prints, a pretty set, [215]
Millais, Sir J. E., [190]
Mitchell, General, Sir John, gift from, [235]
Modane, instance from, of “English as she is wrote,” [129]-[130]
Molesworth, Lady, [253]
Monk, Bishop, and his wig, [268]
Mount Street, bachelor abodes in, past and present, [157]-[158];
military associations of, [150];
its architecture, [141]
“Mrs. Poodles,” a Siamese cat, [227]
Munro of Novar, his eccentricities, [25], [26]
Music halls, past and present, [252]
Napoleon I., relics of, in England, [78], [80] et seq.;
the invasion scare, as affecting East Anglia, [79]-[80];
his wives, [81];
portraits of, his attitude during Mass, [82]-[83];
his beliefs and superstitions, his love of church bells, [84];
at Elba, tales of, [85] et seq.;
traces of, [88];
his power over men, a tale of, [90] et seq.;
alleged visit to London, [94];
on the death of Marie Antoinette, [100]
Napoleon III., in England, [306];
a portrait of, by Count D’Orsay, [190]
Naundorff, the pretended Louis XVII., [115];
his descendants, [117]
Needlework carpets, [50];
pictures, [204]
Nelson, [180],[181], [269]-[270]
Nelthorpe, Colonel, permanent visitor at Wolterton, [46], [47]
Nemours, Duke of, [204]
Nevill, Miss Meresia, and the Primrose League, [19]
New College, Oxford, dumb-bell machine at, [224]
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Courant, antiquity of, [304]
“Newman’s Greys,” at weddings, [11]
Newmarket, [50];
Lord Orford’s Mecca, [55]
Newspapers, [303] et seq.
Nightcaps, Dr. Burney’s lines on, [269]-[270]
Norfolk, advent of the railway, [292];
beliefs and customs, [313];
newspapers, early in the field, [303];
police first constituted, [292];
“squarsons” and their ways, [13]
Norfolk Chronicle, age of, [303]
Normandie, Duc de, Naundorff’s assumed title, [115]
Northampton, two hanging stories of, [276]-[277]
Norton, Hon. Mrs. (née Sheridan), [14];
and the Owl, [17]
Norwich, anti-catholic feeling in, [109];
hatred shown by, to Napoleon I., [79];
democrats of, [114];
Peace Society’s doings at, [47]
Norwich Postman, antiquity of, [303]
O’Connell, Daniel, first Roman Catholic M.P., [300]
Oliphant, Laurence, and the Owl, [16]
Onslow, Earl of, tries to acclimatise crayfish, [133]
Opera, the, and its attractions, [254];
Orford, Earl of (author’s brother), stories of, [13], [14], [172], [231], [267];
letter to, from Lord Beaconsfield, [73]-[74]
— Earl of (author’s father), [84],[158];
characteristics and opinions of, [48], [123], [292], [296];
— Earl of (author’s nephew), old documents owned by, [174]
Orrock, Mr. James, connoisseur and collector, [217], [218];
scheme for National Gallery of British Art, [212]
Osborne, Bernal, [253];
his election struggles, [2], [3];
on the author’s gardening tastes, [239]-[240];
nicknames given by, [68], [76];
his attitude to Palmerston, [65]-[67];
his “parrot” story, [234];
his views on the Irish question, [77]
Otway, the poet, his birthplace and career, [285];
his death and tomb, [286]
Over-taxation, clever squib on, [4]-[6]
Owl, The, its staff and supporters, [15];
its jokes, verse, and riddles, [17]-[18]
Oxford, Edward, attempt of, to kill Queen Victoria, [165]
Paas, Mr., his murderer, the last man hanged in chains, [276]
Pall Mall Gazette, [304]
Palmerston, Lord, his social qualities, [65];
as a politician, [66];
Bernal Osborne’s attitude to, [65], [66]-[67];
Cobden’s dislike for, [67]
Parham Park, a smuggler’s haunt, [274]
Paris, Napoleonic relics in, [89];
noted English residents in, [309]
Paris, the Comte de, and the French “White Rose League,” [18], [19]
Paris Exhibition, 1878, [308]
Parliament, changes in, [300]
Parr’s steam carriage, [293]
Parrot story, the, of Bernal Osborne, [234]
Payne, George, his racing experiences, [51]-[52], [54];
his religious feeling, [53]
Peel, Sir Robert, and the Holbein painting of the Barbers’ Company, [124], [125];
his scheme for adorning Hyde Park, [163]
Pekinese dogs, [231]
Pelletan, Dr., and the heart of the alleged Dauphin (Louis XVII.), [119]
Pellew, Lady, daughter of Lady Holland’s first marriage, her sham funeral, Byron on, [61]; [261]
Pellew, Miss, grand-daughter of Lady Holland, her connection with the author, [61]
Pender, Sir John, famous party of, to celebrate the telegraph cable to India, [155]
Penny postage introduced, [296]
Perceval, Mr., the assassinated statesman, letter to, from Mrs. Atkyns, [113]-[114]
— Rev. Mr., and Naundorff, [115]
Petit Trianon, and its associations, [101]-[102]
Petworth, the last of the smugglers at, [275]
Piccadilly, origin of the name discussed, [154]
Pictures, needlework, [204]
Pigeons in London, [162]
Piombino, Princess Elise of, sister of Napoleon, [87]
Police, modern, established, [291]
Ponsonby, Hon. Gerald, [221]
Poole, the Custom-House murders at (1749), a relic of, [275]-[276]
Pope, the (Gregory XVI.), Lord Vernon’s interview with, a discussion on Dante, [8]-[9]
Post-chaises, [50]
Poyntz family, connection of, with Cowdray, and its curse, [284]
Pressing to death (peine forte et dure), last instance of, [278]-[279]
Pretender, the, a strange likeness to, [101];
secret negotiations of, with Sir R. Walpole, [317]
Primrose League, the, its originator, [19];
interest in, of the Comte de Paris, [18], [19]
Print-collecting, French prints, [205]-[206];
military prints, [295]
Public execution, the last, in England, [276]
Publicity, modern love of, [27]
Queen Anne furniture, [216], [218]
Queensberry, Duke of (“Old Q.”), his running footmen, [146]
Races won by the author’s father, [54]
Raffet’s lithograph of “The Midnight Review,” [95]
Railways and the railway mania, [292]-[293]
Ratton Row, a common name for streets, [167]
Récamier, Dr., [99]
Redgrave, Miss, her artistic gifts, her friends, [191]-[193]
— Mr. Samuel, artistic knowledge of, [191]
Reform Bill, changes following, [295] et seq.
Religion, attitude towards, of some non-churchgoers, [53]-[54]
Resurrection men, [280]
Richmond, Duke of, coming of age festivities of, [46]
— Duke of (the late), rare dogs bred by, [230]
Ritchie, Mr. Leitch, his translation of “The Midnight Review,” [95] et seq.
Robinson, Sir Charles, [183]
Roller skating, vogue of, [248]-[249]
Rome, carnival in (1842), [8];
a theatrical performance at (1845), [261]
Rosalba, pastels by, of Walpoles, [180]
Rothschild, Miss Alice, French art treasures of, [208]
— Mr. Alfred, his French art treasures, [207]
Rotten Row, past and present, question of its name, [167]-[169];
some former habitués, [170]
Rougeville, Chevalier de, his devotion to Marie Antoinette, [101]
Rous, Admiral, why he left the navy, [51];
his dislikes, [52]
Russell, John Scott, his steam car, [295]
— Lord John, appearance and manner of, [67];
Bernal Osborne’s nicknames for, [68]
Rutland, a former Duke of, and his hunting accidents, [273]
Sackville, Lord, treasures of, at Knole, [223]-[225]
St. Clement Danes church, tomb of Otway in, [286]
St. Helena, Napoleon I. at, [85], [87]
St. James’s Park, otter hunt in, [160]-[161]
— Square, memories concerning, [151]-[152]
— Street and its clubs, Locker’s verses on, [158]-[159]
Sala, George Augustus, on Paris, [308]-[309]
Samplers, [204]
Sancroft, Archbishop, [319]
Sandwich, Lady, [45]
Sardou, Monsieur, his views on the fate of the Dauphin (Louis XVII.), [118]
Satan and the church-goer, [54]
Saturday Review, [304]
Savarin, Brillat, on the truffle, [131]
Saxe-Weimar, late Prince Edward of, and the financier, [31]
Scene-painters afterwards otherwise famous, [194]
Scenery in theatres, first use of, in England, [195]
Schlieman, Dr., his collections, [186]
Scrap-books of the author, [1]
Sedan-chair, a, used at Cheltenham in the ’sixties, [128]
Seidlitz, Baron von, author of “The Midnight Review,” [94]
Selwyn, George, [151]
Serjeants’ rings, [271]
Sèvres-china, some splendid specimens, [210]-[211];
a famous commode and its adventures, [210]
Seymour, Lady, and Lady Shuckburgh, amusing letters between, about a cook, [305]
— Lord Henry, in Paris, [309]
Shepherd’s Market, [153]
Sheppard, Jack, the highwayman, in Mayfair, [153]
Sheraton, [212] et seq.;
his opinion of Chippendale, [214];
features of his work, [215]
Sherbrooke, Lord, lines by, on the “Garden of Friendship,” Cortachy, [245];
squibs on his proposed match tax, [6]
Sheridan, his suggestion for building in Hyde Park, [168]
Sheriffs and Judges, running footmen of, as late as 1851, [147]
Shirts, clean, one way of wearing, [126]-[127]
Siamese cats of the author, [226]-[229]
Silhouettes owned by the author, [196]-[197]
Silkworm culture, successful, of the author, [242]-[243]
’Sixties, ways and customs of the, [155]-[156] et seq.
Skin, human, put to gruesome use, [279]-[280]
Smirke, engraved tickets by, [200]
Smith, Rev. Sydney, once minister of Berkeley Chapel, [150];
political squib attributed to, [4]-[6]
— Sergeant, deserter, execution of, in Hyde Park, [164]
Smithurst, the smuggler, [275]
Smoking, past and present, [52], [137]-[138]
Smuggling stories, [274]-[276]
Snuff-boxes, Mr. Hawkins’s, [211]
Socialism, causes leading up to, [297]
Society, modern, [22]
— moral status of, [297]-[298]
— of the past, [22];
its leaders and noted conversationalists, [23]
— pleasures of, [297] et seq.
Somerset, Duchess of (née Sheridan), her wit and beauty, [14];
her use of guinea-pigs as food, [15]
— the Protector, letters to, at Longleat, [44]
“Souls, The,” Sir W. Harcourt on, [15]
Southhill Park, [152]
Soyer, famous cook, his artistic wife, their grave and its inscription, [135]
Spencer House and its designer, [164]
Squarsons, stories of, [13]
Stanfield, J. C, as scene-painter, [194]
Stanhope, Lady Hester, [163]
Stock Exchange, the, as a social power, [30]-[31], [299]
Straight, Sir Douglas, [304]
Strawberry Hill, Lady Waldegrave’s “decorations” at, [40]
Stuart memorials and portraits collected by Earl of Orford (the late), [195]
— papers found by the present Earl, [317] et seq.
— period, furniture of, [222], [223]
Suckling, owners of Nelson’s sword, [180]
Suffield, Countess (the “Double Dow”), aristocratic insolence of, her carpet work, [49];
an eighteenth-century dame, [50]
Sussex, customs, songs, and superstitions, [265]-[266], [277]-[278];
roads, eighteenth century, [280];
smuggling in, [274] et seq.
Sutherland, Duke of (the late), [137]
Sutton, Miss, marriage of, with the Chevalier de Bardelin, [80]
Taglioni, [254];
on modern dancing, [255]
Talleyrand, Charles Maurice, on Lady Holland’s caprices, [64]
Teanby, William, watch-papers by, [199]
Tennyson, Lord (the late), [67], [68]
Testina, author’s mare, a long ride on, [233]
Thackeray, W. M., [42]
Theatres, [254];
Thorburn, portrait by, of the author, [189]
Thurgar’s school, Norwich, [80]
Thynne, Sir John, builder of Longleat, [44]
Tickets, engraved for balls and concerts, author’s collections, [200]
Tides, Norfolk superstition about, [313]
Tilsit, Treaty of, a relic of, [80], [208]-[210]
Times, the, and the Owl, [16];
an odd advertisement in, [305]
Tokens issued by towns, [288]
Toole, Mr., the late, cause of his success, [256];
his love of joking, [258]
Töplitz, a Jewish wedding at, [262]-[263]
Torrington, Lord, [253]
Trafalgar Square riots, [166]
Trotton church, “restoration” of, [286], [287]
— Place, [284];
association of, with Otway, [285]
Truffles, English, excellence of, [131]-[132]
Turkish ambassador, a story of a, [157]
Turko-Russian affairs, 1878, [25];
Lord Beaconsfield on, in 1876, [74]
Tyburn, executions at, [164];
one useful result of, [125]
— stream, extant traces of its course, [167]
Undaunted, vessel which took Napoleon to Elba, [88]
Unemployed processions, a story of, [167]
Valentines, [201]
Van der Weyer, M., Belgian Minister, his reply to Lady Holland, [62]
Vanneck family, “conversation” group of, by Devis, [181];
their connection with the Walpoles, [181]-[182]
Vardy, architect, [164]
Vauxhall Gardens, in old days, fate of, [246]-[247]
Vernon, Lord, his Dante discussion with Pope Gregory XVI., [8], [9]
Versailles, alleged buried treasure at, [102]
Vestris, Madame, in Curzon Street, [154]
Vicenza, a glimpse of the Comte de Chambord at, [99]
Victoria, Queen, attempts on her life, [165];
libellous description of her habits, [263]-[264]
Victoria and Albert Museum, [211]
Victorian era, art of, [40]
— furniture, its ugliness, [216]
Vienna, ladies of, carpet made by, for Lord Westmoreland, [50]
Village life, changes in, [312] et seq.
Villegagnon, Madame de, and her husbands, [182]
Visitors “down with the fish,” [43]
Waddesdon, art treasures at, [208]
Waldegrave, Frances, Countess of (née Braham), her character, her place in society, her doings at Strawberry Hill, [39], [40]
Wallace, Lady, [186]
— Sir Richard, [309]
Wallace Collection, the, and its founder, [184];
why not left to France, [185];
treasures of French art, [80], [208], [211]
Walpole, characteristics, [315]-[316]
— portraits and relics owned by the author, [179] et seq.
— Admiral Galfridus, his portrait and his sword, [180]
— Colonel Walpole of Heckfield Place, Stuart relics owned by, [195]
— Colonel John, and his crest, [110]
— Hon. Thomas, his wife and misfortunes, [181];
his honesty, [182];
his second wife, ib.
as a child, miniature of, by Hone, [179];
another portrait, ib.;
a relic of, [182];
his old Opera Pass, [253]-[254]
— Lady, author’s great grandmother, her carpet work and spinning, [50]
— Madame, her garden, [110]
— The Hon. Frederick, father of present Lord Orford, [317]
— Sir Spencer, [113];
his great-grandmother, [181];
a “serious” Walpole, [315]
— Sir Robert, connection of, with Nelson, [180];
his otter hounds, in St. James’s Park (1739), [161];
some secret negotiations of the Pretender with, [317] et seq.
— Robert, father of Mrs. Atkyns, [110]
Walpole Street, Chelsea, [318]
Ward, Messrs. Marcus, and Co., and Christmas cards, [202]
Watch-papers owned by the author, [199]-[200]
Watch-stands, old, [203]-[204]
Watts, G. F., the late, letter from, [34];
interest of, in Zazel, [251]
Wealth, modern dominance of, [32]
Webb, John, designer of scenery, etc., [194]
Webster, an artist, his pictures, [191]-[193]
— Sir Augustus, present owner of Battle Abbey, [59]
— Sir Godfrey, first husband of Lady Holland, [59]
Weddings, former-day, stories of, [10]-[13];
rural (Norfolk), customs at, [313]
Weir, Mr. Harrison, [226]
Wellington, 1st Duke of, French residence of (1817), [85];
his meeting with Nelson, [180]
— 2nd Duke of, his dislike of press publicity, [27]
West, Colonel and Mrs. Sackville, and the Knole art treasures, [224], [225]
Westminster, Duke of, [140]
Westminster Aquarium, Zazel’s cannon feat at, [250]-[251]
West Norfolk Regiment of Militia, some names associated with, [47]
Wharncliffe, Lord and Lady, and the Owl, [17]
“White Rose League,” origin and fate of, [19]
White’s Club, its bow windows, [158]
Wilberforce, Rt. Rev. S., Bishop of Oxford, and the Owl, [17]
Wilkie, Sir David, [193]
William the Conqueror and the Battle of Hastings, [56]-[58]
William IV., [194];
and Mrs. Jordan, his love for children, a story of, [197]-[198]
Williams, Eleazar, the American pretended Dauphin (Louis XVII.), [115] et seq.
Wimborne House, Arlington Street, its names and occupants, [155]
Windham, Mr., [168]
Wine-drinking, past and present, [136]-[137]
Wolff, Sir Henry Drummond, and the Owl, [18];
his powers as raconteur, [18];
one of the Fourth Party, [18];
the originator of the Primrose League, [19];
stories of Napoleon I. told to, at Elba, [84] et seq.
Wolterton Hall, and its treasures, [81], [174], [195], [317];
a permanent guest at, [46]
Woolett J., watch-paper by, [200]
Worcester Journal, antiquity of, [304]
Wortley, Mr. James Stuart, and the Owl, [16]
York, Duke of (eighteenth century), [148]
— Cardinal, portrait of, at Heckfield Place, [195]
Zamor, Madame du Barry’s black page, [107];
his latter days, [108]
Zazel and her performance, [250]-[251]
Zouche, Baroness de la, and the smugglers, [274]
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