Records of Later Life

by Fanny Kemble

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INDEX

• Adelaide, Queen Dowager, [335], [340], [341]
• Albert, Prince, [321], [324], [341]
• Alexis, his mesmeric powers, [228]
• Alfieri, [21]
• Allen, Dr., [62]
• Alvanley, Lord, [74]
• America, character of Americans, [4];
  • no poor, [6];
  • servants in, [8];
  • society in, [26];
  • climate, [33];
  • travel between and England, [39];
  • scenery, [42];
  • expression of faces in, [51];
  • medical treatment in, [82];
  • overwork of Americans, [91];
  • medicinal waters in, [96];
  • bathing in, [97];
  • railroads in, [104];
  • the Dismal Swamp, [108];
  • the "place where a place was intended to be," [109];
  • American decorum, [110];
  • corduroy, [112];
  • North Carolina natives, [116];
  • tobacco-chewing, [116];
  • a North Carolina "Colonel," [117];
  • slavery on Butler's Island, [136];
  • its influence on the whites, [137];
  • hotels, [151];
  • 4th of July in Philadelphia, [152];
  • equality in, [152];
  • health in, [167];
  • "carrying on" financially, [176];
  • Irish servants in, [184], [195];
  • presidential election, [204];
  • war with England, [206];
  • the credit system in, [288];
  • divorces in, [292];
  • slavery in, [307];
  • a story of slavery, [370];
  • society, [403];
  • public spirit, [405];
  • an American on America, [415];
  • contrasted with Italy, [466];
  • spirit of conformity, [550]
• Amistad, [185];
  • history of, [186]
• Anne the nurse, on the Rhine, [256];
  • at Bowood, [273];
  • objects to be waited on, [275], [279], [296], [297], [321];
  • her views of presentation, [325]
• Appleton, Miss, [18], [101], [228]
• Ardgillan Castle, [13]
• Arkwrights, [251], [493], [495]
• Arnold, [420], [424];
  • his influence, [425];
  • his opinions, [430];
  • life of, [432], [434], [444];
  • character of his pupils, [446], [448];
  • his "letters," [452], [453], [619], [645]
• Ashburton, Lady, [219], [281]
• Ashburton, Lord, [360], [372], [380]
• Ashley, Lord, [444]
• Austen, Charles, [281]
• Austin, Lucy, [578]
• Austin, Mrs., [3], [578], [666]

• Babbage, [273]
• Bach, [262]
• Balzac, [255];
  • "Recherche de l'Absolu," [451]
• Banian, Mrs., [271]
• Barker, Laura, [646]
• Beaumont, Mr., [183]
• Beaumont, Mrs. Wentworth, carrying a contested election, [183]
• Becker, Dr., magnetized, [231]
• Bedford, Duchess of, [303], [304], [339]
• Bedford, Duke of, [303], [360], [514]
• Beecher, Lady, [77]
• Beethoven, [265], [623]
• Bendermann, [269]
• Benedict, [373]
• Bentley, [337]
• Berkeley, Craven, [312]
• Berkeley, Earl of, his encounter with a highwayman, [316]
• Berkeley, Frederick, [312]
• Berkeley, Grantley, [312]
• Berkeley, Henry, [310], [312], [313]
• Berkeley, Lady, [308];
  • her story, [310], [349], [369]
• Berkeley, Lady Mary, [313], [369]
• Berkeley, Lord, [311]
• Berkeley, Morton, [313];
  • the contents of his pockets, [314]
• Bernhardt, Sarah, [246]
• Berry, Miss, [295], [356], [373], [419], [443], [458];
  • declining health, [499]; [518], [617], [625]
• Berrys, The Miss, [45], [64]
• Bessborough, Lord, [501]
• Biddle, Nicholas, [289], [299]
• Blackett, John, [619]
• Bohn, [371]
• Borghese, Prince, [644]
• Bossuet, [618]
• Brackenbury, Mr., [555]
• Bradshaw, Judge, [660]
• Brand, Hon. Thomas, [526], [631]
• Brand, Mrs., [526]
• Bremer, Frederica, [444]
• Bright, [206], [640]
• Brougham, Lord, [549]
• Browne, Sir Thomas, [39], [661]
• Browning, [373], [447]
• Bruce, Mrs., [421]
• Brunel, [273]
• [Buccleuch], Duchess of, [356]
• Bulteel, Lady Elizabeth, [516]
• Bunn, Mr., [367], [426]
• Bunsen, Baron, [431], [432], [434];
  • his character, [445];
  • on Arnold, [448]
• Bunsen, Mrs., [467]
• Butler's Island, [134], [135], [152], [157], [169]
• Byng, Frederick, [62], [360], [373], [380], [554]
• Byron, Lady, [3], [165], [577]
• Byron, Lord, [21]

• Calcraft, Mr., [494]
• Caliban, [569]
• Callcott, Lady, [366]
• Callcott, Mr., [330]
• Calvinism, [575]
• Camp, Vincent de, [317]
• Canterbury, Lord, [284]
• Carlisle, Lord, [502]
• Carlyle, on "Mathilde," [291]; [573], [666]
• Carolside, [519], [520], [521], [524]
• Castlereagh, Lady, [631], [645], [657]
• Cavendish, Miss Susan, [526]
• Celeste, Mademoiselle, [559]
• Cerito, [193], [211]
• Chambers Brothers, "Vestiges of Creation" attributed to, [546]
• Channing, [24];
  • preaching, [28];
  • anecdote of, [29];
  • on slavery, [30], [180];
  • sermon on sorrow, [187];
  • letters from England, [355];
  • death, [363];
  • book, [376], [380], [419], [564]
• Charlemont, Lady, [380]
• Charlemont, Lord, [380]
• Charles I., [660]
• Charleston, [122]
• Charlotte, Queen, [311]
• Chester, Harry, [421]
• Chesterfield, Lord, [439]
• Child, Mrs. Lydia, [324], [338], [355]
• Chopin, [193], [262], [264], [265]
• Chorley, [52];
  • his play, [165], [212], [241], [259], [269], [375];
  • veneration for Dr. Follen, [420], [438], [447], [455];
  • takes charge of papers, [460], [483], [492]
• Chorley, Mrs., [221]
• Churchill, Mr., [584]
• Clairvoyance, "I see it, but I don't believe it," [229]
• Clarendon, Lord, [640], [660]
• Clayton, Captain, the highwayman, [317]
• Clémentine, Princesse, [647]
• Cobden, [640], [643]
• Codrington, Sir Edward, [419], [421], [436]
• Coleman, Mr., [437]
• Coles, Sir Francis, [329]
• Combe, Dr., [21], [354], [521]
• Combe, Mr., [47];
  • the "Constitution of Man," [102];
  • thinks Mrs. Kemble improved, [162], [167], [194];
  • magnetism, [230], [232], [252];
  • on martyrdom, [326], [354], [459], [460], [530], [532], [539];
  • his fanaticism, [540], [542];
  • on "Vestiges of Creation," [543], [546];
  • "dry humor," [597]
• Combe, Mrs., [47], [102], [162], [194], [230], [252], [354], [525], [530], [532];
  • her beauty, [539], [540], [542]
• Cooper, James, [95]
• Cooper, Mrs., [374]
• Cork, Lady, [48], [52]
• Correggio, [376]
• Corsini, Prince, [644]
• Coster, Mr., [353]
• Cottin, Miss, [259], [279], [455], [591], [605]
• Coutts, [283]
• Coutts-Trotter, Miss, [574]
• Craven, [502]
• Cromwell, [660]
• [Crow], Mrs., her book, [230];
  • her insanity, [232]
• Cumberland, Duke of, [269]
• Cunard, Mr., [383]

• Dacre, Lady, [45];
  • letters to, [57], [63], [76], [101], [142], [149], [160];
  • letters to, [161], [175], [198], [248], [249], [280], [323];
  • letters to, [356], [360], [361], [362];
  • her advice, [363];
  • letters to, [365], [366], [377], [378], [380], [381], [386], [392], [401], [414], [428], [432], [438];
  • her illness, [438];
  • letters to, [488], [491], [494], [514];
  • letters to, [525];
  • invitation from, [548], [554], [622]
• Dacre, Lord, [45];
  • on contested elections, [183], [248], [250], [252], [281], [338], [356], [362], [378], [380], [415];
  • on war, [429], [438], [446], [640], [641], [643]
• Dalhousie, Lord, [65]
• Darner, Mrs. Dawson, [380], [519]
• Dantan, [368]
• Darien, [130]
• Déjazet, [329], [342], [598], [599]
• De Quincey, [415]
• Dessauer, [209];
  • Elle m'a compris! [212], [265], [326]
• De Tocqueville, [209]
• Dévy, Madame, [327], [334], [337]
• Dickens, [107], [305], [318];
  • his opinion of America, [359], [380]
• Dietrichstein, Madame de, [487]
• Disraeli. See Israeli, D'.
• Donne, William Bodham, [612]
• Douro, Lady, [295]
• Dryden, [376]
• Dufferin, Lady, [502], [649]
• Dumas, Alexandre, [337]
• Duncombe, Thomas, [315]
• Dundas, Mr., [281]

• Edisto, [127]
• Egerton, Francis, [227], [248], [251], [272], [325], [329], [330], [334], [356];
  • on Arnold, [448]
• Egerton, Lady Francis, [162], [420], [446];
  • on Arnold, [448]
• Eliot, George, [50], [53]
• Ellesmere, Lady, [45], [73], [244], [448], [629], [631]
• Ellesmere, Lord, [45], [448], [501], [600], [601], [629], [631]
• Ellis, Mr., [645]
• Ellsler, Fanny, [191], [193], [194];
  • Mrs. Grote befriends her, [210];
  • her genius, [211];
  • her child, [213], [241], [246], [372]
• Empson, [381], [419]
• Enclos, Ninon de l', [54]
• Eresby, Lords Willoughby de, [304]
• Essex, Lady, [436], [514]
• Este, Mademoiselle d', [295], [303], [304];
  • her character, [333]; [335], [337];
  • her claims, [338];
  • her queen, [341];
  • her marriage, [344]
• Everett, Edward, [325], [381]

• F., letter to, [385]
• Farquharson, [597]
• Fay, Theodore, [48]
• Fénélon, [564], [618]
• Fergusson, Sir Adam, [527]
• Fishing, "Fishing bery good fun, when de fish him bite," [146];
  • American fish, [155]
• Fitzhardinge, Lord, [310], [312]
• Fitzhugh, Emily, [10];
  • letters to, [12], [13], [55], [84], [133], [139], [145], [161], [308], [319], [373];
  • letter to, [420];
  • her marks, [430], [496], [508], [512], [600], [629]
• Fitzhugh, Mr., [51];
  • his illness, [177], [536]
• Fitzhugh, Mrs., [51], [308], [319], [475], [477], [508], [535], [536], [589], [595];
  • her health, [597];
  • depression, [598]
• Foley, Lord, [356]
• Follen, Dr., his death, [180];
  • his history and character, [182];
  • sermon on, [187], [364], [419], [574]
• Follen, Mrs., [364]
• Follenius, Carl, [181]
• Forbes, John, [160]
• Forster, Mr. John, [496], [501]
• Foster, a séance with, [235]
• Fourier, [655]
• Fowler, Dr., [271]
• Fox, Miss, [281]
• Francis, Lady, [221], [274], [276];
  • presents Mrs. Kemble, [324]; [325], [327], [349]
• Francis, Lord, [276]
• Frezzolini, [325]
• Frost, Mr., [560]
• Fuller, Margaret, [17]
• Fullerton, Lady Georgiana, [541]
• Furness, Mr., anti-slavery sermons, [388]; [403], [629], [640], [648]

• Garcia, Pauline, [207]
• Gaskell, Mrs., [568]
• Gensius, [211]
• Genz, Frederic von, [211]
• George III., [311]
• Georgia, condition of, [103];
  • slavery in, [203];
  • journal of residence in, [159], [203], [205]
• Gibbon, [173]
• Gibson, [193]
• Gioberti, [653]
• Glück, [213]
• Goethe, Madame von, [3]
• Goethe, Wolfgang von, [12], [15], [33], [77];
  • "Wilhelm Meister," [589], [592], [663]
• Good, the murderer, [310]
• Gordon, Lady Lucy Duff, [576], [578], [590]
• Gordon, Sir Alexander Duff, [578]
• Grant, Sarah, [459]
• Grant, William, [450]
• Granville, Dr., [51]
• Grazia, [51]
• Green, Mr., [368]
• Gregory, William, [231]
• Gresset, [599]
• Greville, Algernon, [298]
• Greville, Charles, [61], [74];
  • his character, [216];
  • his "Memoirs," [217]; [218], [226];
  • at a séance, [235]; [273], [274], [281], [283], [301];
  • his mention of Queen Adelaide, [344]; [360];
  • letter to, [376]; [381], [423], [431];
  • on Arnold, [448];
  • his book, [458], [461], [483];
  • on a future life, [498], [499];
  • character, [514]; [549], [558];
  • letter to the Times, [587];
  • and Parliament, [590]; [598];
  • supposed the author of "Jane Eyre," [602], [603];
  • writings on Ireland, [611]; [615];
  • on politics, [620]; [629], [647], [649]
• Greville, Henry, [239], [329], [335], [423], [436];
  • on painting, [475], [483];
  • goes to Manchester, [485], [487];
  • as an amateur actor, [496], [501], [502];
  • his criticism, [508];
  • character, [514]; [529], [541], [543];
  • and Rachel, [548]; [558], [600];
  • his mania for playhouses, [602], [603];
  • on readings, [615], [622], [624];
  • house-furnishing, [629]; [635], [647], [662], [666]
• Greville, Lady Charlotte, [625], [647]
• Grey, Countess, [528]
• Grey, Lady, [228], [366], [402], [526], [554], [635], [640], [643]
• Grey, Lord, [338], [516], [635]
• Griffith, Mrs., [74]
• Grisi, [48], [49];
  • description of, [50]; [211], [325], [377], [475]
• Grote, George, [209], [218], [241], [373], [444];
  • "History of Greece," [589];
  • on politics, [620]
• Grote, Mrs., a Grotesque passage, [208];
  • her talents, [209];
  • befriends Mlle. Ellsler, [210];
  • Malbrook s'en va t'en guerre, [212];
  • takes charge of Fanny Ellsler's child, [213];
  • her opinion of [d'Orsay], [213];
  • her illness, [217];
  • engrosses Jenny Lind, [217];
  • her interest in politics, [218];
  • "It is political," [219];
  • her appearance, [219];
  • language, [220];
  • dress, [220];
  • "the gentleman in the white muslin gown," [221]; [241], [246], [351], [352], [353], [373];
  • beasterly wind, [373]; [423], [424], [425], [427], [434], [444], [522];
  • her sufferings, [611];
  • her unusualness, [620];
  • verses, [639]
• Guercino, [376]
• Guildford, Lord, [519]
• Guizot, [649], [667]
• Gunter, [373]

• Halévy, [217]
• Hall, Miss, [369], [374], [391]
• Hallam, [65], [381]
• Hallé, Charles, [265], [577], [579]
• Hamilton, Miss, [308], [424]
• Hamilton, Mr., [535]
• Hamiltons, The Miss, [589]
• Hampden, Dr., [619]
• Hanmer, [653]
• Hanover, King of, [269]
• Happy Valley, a, [19]
• Hardwicke, Lord, [621]
• Harness, Rev. William, "taking it out in corns," [65]; [90], [161], [164], [296], [297];
  • his character, [298]; [352], [353], [373], [419], [548], [555], [611], [615], [626], [629], [630], [657]
• Hatherton, Lady, [48], [52]
• Hawtrey, Dr., [563], [570]
• Hawtrey, Stephen, [570]
• Hayes, Bridget, [506], [507], [516], [531], [567], [605], [606], [611], [634]
• Hayward, [21]
• Hazlitt, [639]
• Head, Sir Francis, [53]
• Herbert, George, [566]
• Hero, [567], [571], [593]
• Hesse-Darmstadt, Duke of, [269]
• Hibbard, Mr., [440]
• Hibbard, Mrs., [440]
• Holland, Dr., [423]
• Holland House, [60]
• Holland, Lady, at Rogers', [59];
  • her jelly, [62];
  • her temper, [63];
  • travelling by land, [273]; [430];
  • her last days, [441];
  • her will, [441]
• Holland, Lord, [59], [60], [649]
• Hook, Theodore, [398]
• Horner, Francis, [379], [420], [573]
• Howick, Lord, [460]
• Hugo, Victor, [22], [501], [585]
• Hume, [234]
• Humphreys, Mrs., [535]
• Hunt, Leigh, his play, [190]