[19] Lord Sydenham said later, "Lord John is the noblest man it has ever been my fortune to follow" (Spencer Walpole's "Life of Lord John Russell").
[20] From a sonnet to Lady John Russell by Lord Wriothesley Russel, written after reading Lady Minto's ballad in which these words occur: "His country and thee."
[21] Lord Ribblesdale, Adelaide Lister (Mrs. Drummond), Isabel Lister (Mrs. Warburton), Elizabeth Lister (Lady Melvill).
[22] This account is copied from the old leather-bound journal, in which it was written by Lord John the day after the interview; there is no gap in the account, but the last part appears to have been written later, and is unfinished.
[23] Lord John had built a house, 37, Chesham Place, which was henceforward their London home.
[24] Trevelyan's "Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay."
[25] Third Earl Grey, son of the Prime Minister.
[26] Lord John Russell's brother.
[28] An allusion to Napoleon's letters to Josephine from Italy, which she had been reading.