[74] Mr. Gladstone died three weeks after the letter was received.
[75] They consisted chiefly of boys whose father or mother had died in the London Hospital.
[76] Cf. her “Cry of the Children,” first printed in Blackwood’s Magazine, August 1843.
[77] 26th November 1879.
[78] Afterwards Edward VII.
[79] Now George V.
[80] The surname Bannerman was taken when her husband inherited, under his uncle’s will in 1872, a considerable fortune and the Castle Belmont property in Forfar.
Transcriber’s Notes
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.