CONCERNING
HIS MATERNAL ANCESTRY.
BY ROBERT DAVIES, F.S.A.,
IN A LETTER TO MR. HUNTER, AUTHOR OF THE TRACT ENTITLED “POPE:
HIS DESCENT AND FAMILY CONNECTIONS.”
It is one of the most pleasing offices of the genealogist to trace the descent and to show the alliances of Genius.
Hunter’s South Yorkshire, vol. ii. p. 297.
LONDON:
JOHN RUSSELL SMITH,
36, SOHO SQUARE.
M.DCCC.LVIII.
“Let any one bethink him how impressive the smallest historical fact may become, as contrasted with the grandest fictitious event;—what an incalculable force lies for us in this consideration;—the thing which I here hold imaged in my mind did actually occur; was, in very truth, an element in the system of the All whereof I too form part; had therefore, and has, through all time, an authentic being; is not a dream, but a reality!”—Carlyle’s Essays, vol. iii. p. 43.
POPE.