[22] A reference to the “Ashburton Treaty” concluded at Washington in 1842. Alexander Baring, first Baron Ashburton, was the English commissioner.
[23] Vestiges of Creation, by Robert Chambers, had been published in the preceding year (1844).
[24] Reminiscences, 1819–1899, by Julia Ward Howe, 1900, p. 138.
[25] Caroline Fox, Memories of Old Friends, 1882, pp. 311–312.
[26] From a letter to Catherine Winkworth, written in 1854; for other passages in the letter, see pp. [8], [41], [139].
[27] Letter of Mrs. Gaskell to Catherine Winkworth, Oct. 20, 1854.
[28] Suggestions for Thought, vol. ii. p. 385.
[29] The wife of Dr. Richard Fowler, physician to the Salisbury Infirmary, mentioned above, p. [35].
[30] The reader will note the recurrence here of some phrases already used in another letter. It is an instance of a point there noted (p. [28]).
[31] Edward Vernon Harcourt.