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7 Fitzroy Square, (London).—She and her husband are grateful for Mr Milnes’s tribute to Miss Berry (i.e. his poem on her funeral).

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7. Fitzroy Square
Dec[embe]r 2. 1852.

Dear Mrs Milnes

Instead of trusting to the slender chance of finding you at home on occasion of a call I venture to write & tell you how grateful Sir Cha[rle]s & I feel, in company with many others, to Mr Milnes for his most beautiful tribute to the venerated Miss Berry.

He has spoken the language of all our hearts, & I feel convinced that each who knew Miss Berry must feel as if a sweet & sacred duty had been fulfilled for them—& fulfilled exactly as each could wish—& as none other could have done—Pray tell Mr. Milnes this—truly my heart seems lightened by his lines—

Hoping that yourself & your little daughter are well whose christening I was sorry not to be able to congratulate you on I beg to remain

Your’s truly
Eliz. Eastlake

(Place of writing not indicated.)—Praises his lines in The Times (on the funeral of Miss Berry).

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tuesday Morning

My dear Mr Milnes

I cannot resist telling you with how much pleasure I have just read some lines in the Times to the memory of our late lamented friends of Curzon Street. They are an act of justice to the objects of their praise, doing, in my humble judgement, honor† to the talents and feelings of their author. I cannot, of course, presume to decypher the hieroglyphics which follow the concluding stanza, but if you know any one, whose name bears the initials of R. M. M. I beg you will assure him of my warmest sympathy.

I hope we are to have the pleasure of seeing you at dinner today.

Sincerely your’s
Stratford de Re[dcliffe] {1}

R. M. Milnes Esqr. M.P. {2}

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{1} The rest of the name is hidden where the letter is pasted to the leaf of the volume.

{2} This direction is at the foot of the first page.

† Sic.

For the consideration of £105 A assigns to B the copyright of the second volume of his Grecian History, and the copyright of his additions to the first volume. The first volume was formerly purchased from A by Jacob Tonson, the father of B. Witnessed by Samuel Tonson and William Reeve.

Re collecting postal franks.

Text in Arabic. ‘Si nescis scalas ascendere, nunquam ambulabis in Tecto.’ Cf. f. 35r. Dated at Jena. Numbered 173.

16 Serjeants Inn, (London).—Milnes's verses (see the previous item) will appear tomorrow.

(Undated.)

For the consideration of £225 ‘and upwards’, A assigns to B the copyrights of The Accomplish’d Conveyancer, 3 vols., 8vo; The Modern Justice, 8vo; The Laws of Appeals and Murder, 8vo; Lex Constitutionis, or, The Gentleman’s Law, 8vo; The Statute Law Common-plac’d, 8vo; A General Table to the Statutes, 8vo; and The Compleat Parish-Officer, 12mo; as well as shares in The Compleat Court-Keeper, 8vo; The Court-Keeper’s Companion, 12mo; The Justice of Peace’s Vade-Mecum, 12mo; and The Clerk’s Remembrancer, 8vo; all by A. Witnessed by Thomas Brewer(?) and Anthony Brigham.

(The illustration, which is headed ‘Frontispiece’ and subscribed ‘Vol. I’, depicts a crucifix, a cup, and a rod on a plinth draped in black cloth, with a censer on a cushion nearby. In the background is a burning tower surrounded by faggots.)

34 Hertford Street, W.—Praises his article on Miss Berry in the Quarterly Review.

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34 Hertford St: W.
Wednesday 24 Janry 1866

My dear Lord Houghton.

I can’t resist writing to you, to tell you how much pleasure yr. article on Miss Berry in the Quarty. Revw. has given me—It is so true in all that regards Her Character—& the cause of the great agreeability (and Comfortable agreeability) of Her House! one never knew exactly, why, One was happier in her Salon than elsewhere—for often the People were common place enough—though at other times brilliant—but she and poor Agnes (whom Lord Dover called the wrong side of the Tapestry) had the talent of relivening one’s individual self—and one felt that one was pleasant oneself if nobody else was! This feeling died with 8 Curzon St.!!

I will not plague you with any more prose but with my Love to Annabel and thanks for her Letter

Yours sincerely
Caroline Duff Gordon

When all was over & the Scene dropped in Curzon St. I very much wished to persuade Many of her oldest friends who knew Her early Life—and all who had known Her latterly—to write their feelings & estimate of Her character—and of the society in which she delighted to dwell—& then for some one (I wished Lady Morley) to form these sketches to make a Book—no one, would listen to me—I only wrote my own knowlege† (from 1812 to the time of their Death with the exception of the Years 3½ that I spent in Spain from the end of 1813 to 1817—so this (besides my real love for them) gives me a double feeling in all that is now written about Her.

CDS

A true Woman’s PS—longer than the real Letter—scusi

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India Office.—Queries Houghton’s identification of a character in Cyril Thornton with General O’Hara.

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India Office.
Jan. 24. {1} 66

Dear Lord Houghton

I have been studying your “suggestive” article on the Miss Berrys, {2} if yours it is, and am much puzzled with one passage in it. You say the “bachelor” described in Cyril Thornton {3} is General O’Hara: but described as “of the age of sixty seven.” If so, the General must have been 67 at least—say about 70—when he died. But he died in 1802. Could he have been described by Horace Walpole in 1791, at sixty, as “with his face as ruddy and black and his teeth as white as ever!”? and could he have been between sixty and seventy when he made a fool of himself at Toulon against Napoleon? and when he made love to Miss Berry, which would have been making more of a fool of himself still? I cannot help thinking there is some mistake of date, but I have not Cyril Thornton at hand.

Very truly yours
H. Merivale

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{1} The second figure is indistinct.

{2} The reference is to Houghton’s unsigned review of Extracts in the Quarterly Review, Jan. 1866 (vol. cxix, pp. 154–81).

{3} Thomas Hamilton’s novel The Youth and Manhood of Cyril Thornton, first published in 1827.

Texts in Arabic and Hebrew. ‘Per Scalas ascendat in tecto ambulaturus.’ Dated at Jena.

Consideration, £50. Witnesses, Thomas Glenister and Isaac Miller.