[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.