WITH TEN ILLUSTRATIONS, OF WHICH SIX ARE IN COLOUR

SECOND EDITION

First Published ... November 3rd 1910
Second Edition ... December 1910


LADY JOHN RUSSELL AND HER ELDEST SON
From a miniature by Thorburn, 1844.


PREFACE

The manuscripts which have supplied the material for a memoir of my mother deal much more fully with the life of my father than with her own life. Mr. Desmond MacCarthy has therefore linked into the narrative several important incidents in my father's career.