[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.”