Dear Addington,
Many thanks for your old-friendlike and most seasonable letter, and, indeed, I most sincerely reciprocate in wishing you and your dear wife every possible happiness, and in these wishes Mrs. Ford most entirely joins. May the season be pleasant to you both, nay, even “merry.” May you both enjoy that good old epithet associated to the auspicious moment, to which your sound health and right cheery mind so fairly entitle you.
We dined last night with the Marshalls, and the turkey was indeed most orthodox and succulent. Spring Rice dined there with Bessy, and my son Clare with his Bene. They are preparing for Lisbon, and will start in about a fortnight. Bon voyage!
The Indian news is well-timed. The worst is now past, and the difficult task of reconstruction has begun. Your friend, Lord Canning, seems to have done right well. Things seem to be bettering in the City; but I fear that there will be much distress among our industrious operatives. The next three months will be a terrible trial for the poor.
God bless you, dear Addington!
Ever yours most truly,
Richard Ford.
During the next few months the two old friends met frequently; but in July 1858 Ford’s health had become so precarious that his son was summoned home from Lisbon, where he now was an attaché. Richard Ford died at Heavitree, August 31st, 1858.
INDEX
[A], [B], [C], [D], [E], [F], [G], [H], [I], [L], [M], [N], [O], [P], [Q], [R], [S], [T], [U], [V], [W], [X], [Y], [Z]
Abadia, General, [129]
Abadía, Palace at, [88], [92]
Aberdeen, Lord, [82]
Absolutists, the, [5]
Abu Abdullah, 5[9ⁿ]
Addington, Henry Unwin—Plenipotentiary at Madrid (1829-33), [1], [73];
leaves Madrid, [124], [126], [127];
his pension, [135];
his criticism of Ford, [137], 1[41-4], [159], [163], [164], [193], [194];
his advice as to Clare Ford’s future, [212]
Advertising, Hayward’s article on, [186]
Agriculture in Morocco, [120]
Agustina, “La Artillera,” the Maid of Zaragoça, [55]
Airecillo, the, at the Alhambra, [41], [44], [47]
Alagon, [134]
Alameda Vieja, the, at Seville, [12], [18], [23], [128]
Albaicin, the, [41]
Albemarle Street, [182], [187], [190], [192]
Alcantara, [88], [89], [92]
Alcaravan (bittern), [69]
Alcazar, the, [100], [105]
Alcolea, [109]
Alexander VI., Pope, [55]
Alforjas (saddle bags), [124]
las Alfujarras, jamon de, [139]
Algeciras, Torrijos lands at, [19]; [84], [86]
Algiers, [120]
Albania, [114], [117]
Alhambra, the, [32], [34], [36], [37], [38], [39], [41], [51], [59ⁿ], [65], [72], [102], [108], [112], [114], [126], [146], [148], [161]
Alicante, [54], [56], [57]
Allan, Sir William, R.A., [170]
“Ally Croaker,” [39]
Althorp, Lord, [111]
Alva, the Duke of, [89], [92];
life of, [205]
Alva, Duke of, [122], [134]
las Amarillas, Marques de, [10], [13], [98], [106], [108], [110];
the first man in Spain, [136], [137]
Andalusia, rising in, [19]
los Andes, Conde de, [77], [80], [81]
Andujar, [35], [40], [42], [45], [49], [56], [65]
Antequera, [117]
Apsley House, article on, [214]
Aqueduct at Merida, [32]
Aranjuez, [131], [139]
Arapiles, [91]
Architecture, Spanish, article on, [204]
Argamasilla de Alba, [30]
Arjona, the Assistente, [13], [14], [15], [43], [87], [107]
Armament, the, for Portuguese expedition, [83]
Armeria, the, [70]
Arnold, Dr. Thomas, [134ⁿ], [219]
Arrests for sketching, [57]
Ass, the, [7], [56]
Asses’ milk, [71]
Athenæum, the, [214]
Athenæum, the, at Exeter, [155]
Ay de mi, Alhama, [117]
Azulejos, [82], [83], [148]
Babylon, walls of, [156]
Bacalao (dried fish), [107]
Badajoz, [32], [77], [79];
artillery ordered to, [80]; [81], [88], [91]
Bara, [46]
Barbate, the, [20]
Barbary, travelling in, [117]
Barcelona, [54], [55], [57], [59], [60];
description of, [61]; [110];
Llauder expelled from, [136]
Baring, [90]
Barings, the Miss, [171]
Barranco de San Juan, the, [128]
Bassetlaw job, the, [53]
Batushka (Borrow), [192]
Baylen, [49]
Benalua, [66]
Benavente, [92]
“Bene” (Mrs. Clare Ford), [220]
Benin, Bight of, [197]
Berja, lead mines at, [37]
Bermudez, Cea (or Zea), [1], [2], [114]
de Berry, la Duchesse, [99ⁿ]
“Bessy,” [219]
Best, Mr., [167]
Bible in Spain, the, quoted, [20], [21]; [180-4]
Bigge, Captain, [27], [31]
Bilbao, [88], [93]
Boabdila, [59ⁿ]
Boars, wild, [18]
Bodleian Library, the, [146]
Bodmin, [207]
Borgia, Cæsar, [35], [55]
Borrow, George, on Quesada, [20];
Zincali, [179];
Bible in Spain, [180-4];
his Greek servant, [180]; [185];
his biography, [185], [189];
at Oulton Hall, [190], [191], [192]; [194], [202]
Bory de Saint Vincent, [143]
Botiga, the, [40], [67]
Bowring, Dr., [147], [149]
Boyd, Robert, [73], [74], [75], [76], [93]
Brackenbury, Sir John, Consul at Cadiz, [31], [72], [76], [83], [112], [115], [128], [138]
Brasero, the, [12], [16]
Brazilian Slave Trade, the, [198], [199]
British and Foreign Review, the, [179]
“Brook, Master,” [40]
Brougham, Lord, [17ⁿ]
Broughton, Lord, [217]
la Bruyère, quoted, [151]
Bull fights, [102], [103];
in honour of Princess Isabella, [122];
Ford’s article on, [122ⁿ], [163], [165], [166], [167]
Buller, Colonel, [102], [103], [107], [110]
Bulteel, Mr., [149]
Bunyan, John, [181], [183]
Burdett, Sir Francis, [24], [52]
Burgos, [59], [61], [93], [109], [110]
Burra, [56]
Burton, Professor Edward, his Antiquities of Rome (1821), [171]
Burton, Robert (author of the Anatomy of Melancholy), [202]
Bustard, the, [18], [69]
Byron, Ada (Lady Lovelace), [151]
Byron, Lord, [95], [117ⁿ], [151], [152];
The Corsair, [199]
Cadiz, the Cortes at, in 1812, [3];
free trading at, [10], [27], [52];
riots at, in 1831, [20], [27], [41];
assassination of governor, [20], [26];
the Malabar at, [116];
cholera at, [127], [128], [138]
Cain, the originator of cob walls, [156]
Ça ira of the Spanish Revolution, the, [4]
Cajeput oil, [62]
Caldero, [31]
Calle de Alcala, in Madrid, [21], [41], [45], [54]
Calle de Genoa, at Seville, [11]
Calle de los Monsalvos, at Seville, [68]
Calomarde, [97], [98]
Campillo de la Arena, [47], [49], [65], [66]
Candide, [153]
Canning, Lord, [220]
Canning, Lady Stratford, [111]
Canning system, the, [25]
Capara, [92]
Cardenas, the Venta de, [30]
Cardenio, [30]
Cardinals & Co., [208]
Cardona, the salt mines at, [55], [61], [63], [64]
Carlos, Don, [4];
retires to Portugal, [5], [98]; [74], [96], [97];
his wife, [97]; [121], [159]
“Carlos, Don:” see Downie
Carlota, Princess, of Naples, [97], [99ⁿ], [100]
Carmen Convent, the, at Malaga, [73]
Carnarvon, Lord, [17], [181]
Cartuja Convent, the, near Burgos, [109]
Casa de los Expositos, the, [114]
Casa Sanchez, the, in the Alhambra, [146]
Cassiobury, [43]
Castlereagh, Lord, [17]
Cavallero, Juan, [76]
Ceca, La, [39]
Cemetery at Malaga, the, [73], [74]
Charles IV., and the Salic Law, [96];
his wife, [99ⁿ]
Charles V. at the Alhambra, [36], [72];
at San Yuste, [88], [92];
founder of the Maestranza, [103ⁿ]
Charlotte, Princess, [114]
Château Margaux, [186]
Cheffhttinschkwi, [70]
Cherbourg, [170]
Chico, el Rey, [59ⁿ]
Cholera, the, [61], [67], [89], [99], [103], [113];
at Lisbon, [116]; [125], [127];
precautions against, [129-32]
Chorizo (sausage), [139], [183]
Chorlito (curlew), [69]
Christina, Queen, [2], [4], [5];
degrades Moreno, [73]; [74], [97], [99ⁿ], [107], [136ⁿ]
Ciudad Rodrigo, [89], [91], [92];
capture of, Ford’s picture, [209]
Clarendon, Lord, [202], [205];
and see George Villiers
Cob walls, [147], [151], [152], [155], [156], [159]
Coche de colleras, the, [35], [49], [134]
Cockerel, Charles Robert, [218]
Colburn, Mr., [117]
Collier, Mr., [198]
Compostella, [93]
Conder, Josiah, his “Italy” (1831), [171]
“Constantine the Great” (Lord Normanby), [169]
Constitution, the, [3];
rejected by Ferdinand VII., [4];
and Pedro IV., [74]
Constitutionalists, return of the, [4]
Consuls, English, [112], [114]
Cook, Samuel Edward (afterwards Widdrington), [31ⁿ], [38ⁿ], [77], [83], [88], [90], [139], [140], [141], [142]
Cordova, [39]
Coria, [92]
Corpus, el Dia de, [121]
Corral de Conde, at Seville, [12]
Cortijo del Puche, the, [54]
Coto del Rey, the, [14], [16], [18]
Couskousu, [120]
Cowper, Lady, [16]
Cranstoun, Lord, [160], [162]
Cranstoun, the Hon. Eliza (second wife of Richard Ford), [160]
Crawford, Oswald John Frederick, [186ⁿ]
Cuarto, the, [100ⁿ], [107]
de Custine, Marquis (Author of L’Espagne sous Ferdinand VII.), [33], [43], [53], [66]
Danube, the, [201]
Dart, the, [161], [165]
Daubeny, Professor, [31ⁿ]
Dennis, G., his Summer in Andalusia, [28ⁿ]
Despeña-perros, [30]
Diario, the, [107]
Dickens, Charles, [167], [170]
Diligences in Spain, [28], [29];
stopped on account of cholera, [129], [130], [131]
“Dionysia” (Mrs. O’Lawlor), [37], [58], [67], [80], [87], [102], [113], [126]
Dionysio, bookseller at Seville, [11]
Diorama of the Campaigns of the Duke of Wellington, Guide to the, [209-12]
Dog-days, at the Alhambra, [52]
Dolorosita, (niece of Francisca de Molina), [72]
Domestic appliances, at Seville, [71], [77]
Don, General Sir George, [9], [21], [44]
Downie (“Don Carlos”), the commandante at Jaen, [40], [45], [50], [65], [67], [69], [87]
Dress, in Spain, [6], [7];
in Morocco, [118];
at state funerals, [134]
Drewe, Mr., High Sheriff of Devon, [199]
Drummond-Hay, Edward William Auriol, H.B.M. Consul at Tangier, [112], [119], [124]
Dudley, Lord, [2], [14], [17], [43]
Dulcinea, [30]
Ebrington, Lord, [149]
Echo, the, [197], [198]
Ecija, [39]
Eden, Sir William, [66], [70], [71], [75], [77], [78], [79], [81], [88], [90], [116]
Edinburgh Review, the, [183], [184], [185], [186], [189], [214ⁿ]
El Bravo (Sancho IV.), [84]
El Bueno (Guzman), [85], [103], [138]
El Feroz (Heaphy), [90]
El Galib (Mohammed I.), [59];
(Mark), [114]
El Gitano (Borrow), [190]
El Majadero (gawk), [90]
El Pilar, [55], [62], [64]
El Rey Chico, [59ⁿ]
El Santo Rostro, [66ⁿ]
El Toboso, [30]
Elche, the city of palms, [54], [57]
Election, parliamentary, for South Devon, [148] seq.
Ephesus of Mariolatry, the (Zaragoça), [55]
Escribano, the, at Manzanares, [131]
Escurial, the, [53]
de España, the Conde, [61], [98];
replaced by Llauder, [136ⁿ]
Essex, Lord, [43], [160]
Estcourt, T. G. Bucknall, M.P., [154]
Estcourt, Eleanor Anne (Mrs. Addington), [154]
Estefa, José Maria retires to, [99]
Estremadura, [92]
Eton, school bills at, [189];
Montem, [192]; [212]
Exeter, [134], [135], [136];
its library, [135], [140]; [144], [145], [146];
old furniture from, [146];
railway to, [192];
July (1846) assizes at, [197]
Exmouth, [175], [196], [197]
Falmouth, [138]
Faraday, Michael, [218]
Faure, [143]
Felicidade, the, [197], [198]
Ferdinand VII., [1], [4];
his restoration, [4];
his marriage, [4];
his character, [5];
his health, [74], [79], [98], [114];
his children, [97];