The immense number of letters received by Lady Russell's son and daughter,
from men and women of all classes and creeds, bore striking testimony to
the widespread and reverent devotion felt for her memory. Only very few
selections will be given here. The first letter--written on the day of her
death--is from Mr. Farrington, the respected minister of the Richmond Free
Church, who had known Lady Russell intimately for many years.
_Rev. Silas Farrington to Lady Agatha Russell_
_January_ 17, 1898
To me your mother has become more and more an inspiration--a kind
of tower of cheerful courage and strength. By her steadfast mental
and moral bravery, by the sunshine she has been beneath the heavy
clouds that have been sweeping over her, she has made one ashamed
of the small things that troubled him and rebuked his petty
discontent and repining. No one can ever be told how much I both
have honoured and loved her for the very greatness of her noble
spirit.
_Rev. Stopford A. Brooke to Lady Agatha Russell_
_January_ 18, 1898
How little I thought when I saw Lady Russell last [118] that I
should see her no more! She looked so full of life, and her
interest in all things was so keen and eager that I never for a
moment thought her old or linked to her lite the imagination of
death. It is a sore loss to lose one so fresh, so alive, so ardent
in all good and beautiful things, and it must leave you in a great
loneliness.... How well, how nobly she lived her life! It shames us
to think of all she did, and yet it kindles us so much that we lose
our shame in its inspiration.
[118] On October 31, 1897.
_Mr. Frederic Harrison to Lady Agatha Russell_
_February_ 16, 1898
...The news of the great sorrow which has fallen on you came upon
my wife and myself as a dreadful surprise.... Over and over again I
tried to say to the world outside all that I felt of the noble
nature and the grand life of your mother, but every time I tried my
pen fell from my hand. I was too sad to think or write; full only
of the sense of the friend whom I had lost, and of the great
example she has left to our generation. She has fulfilled her
mission on earth, and all those who have known her--and they are
very many--will all their lives be sustained by the memory of her
courage, dignity, and truth. She had so much of the character of
the Roman matron--a type we know so little nowadays--who, being
perfect in all the beauty of domestic life, yet even more
conspicuously raised the public life of her time. I shall never,
while I have life, forget the occasions this last summer and autumn
when I had been able to see more of her than ever before, and
especially that last hour I spent with her, when you were away at
Weston, the memory of which now comes back to me like a death-bed
parting. To have known her was to ride above the wretched party
politics to which our age is condemned. I cannot bear to think of
all that this bereavement means to you. It must be, and will
remain, irreparable.
_Mr. James Bryce [119] to Lady Agatha Russell_
_March_ 10, 1898
Your mother always seemed to me one of the most noble and beautiful
characters I had ever known--there was in her so much gentleness,
so much firmness, so much earnestness, so ardent a love for all
high things and all the best causes. One always came away from
seeing her struck afresh by these charms of nature, and feeling the
better for having seen how old age had in no way lessened her
interest in the progress of the world, her faith in the triumph of
good.
[119] The Right Hon. James Bryce, British Ambassador at Washington.
_Mrs. Sinclair to Mr. Rollo Russell_
_January_, 1900
I loved and honoured my dear lady more than any one I ever served.
In my long life of service, where all had been good and kind to me,
she was the dearest and best.
The funeral service was held on the 21st of January in the village church
at Chenies, where her husband had been buried among his ancestors. The
Burial Service of the Church of England, the solemnity and beauty of which
she had always deeply felt, was read in the presence of many friends and
relations assembled to pay their last tribute of respect to her memory.
Not long before her death Lady Russell had written these lines:
O shadowy form majestic, nearer gliding,
And ever nearer! Thou whose silent tread
Not ocean, chasm, or mountain can delay,
Not even hands in agony outstretched,
Or bitterest tears of breaking hearts, that fain
Would stay thy dread approach to those most dear.
Vainly from thee we seek to hide; thou wield'st
A sceptred power that none below may challenge;
Yet no true monarch thou--but Messenger
Of Him, Monarch supreme and Love eternal,
Who holdeth of all mysteries the key;--
And in thy dark unfathomable eyes
A star of promise lieth.
Then O! despite all failure, guilt and error,
Crushing beneath their weight my faltering soul,
When my hour striketh, when with Time I part,
When face to face we stand, with naught between,
Come as a friend, O Death!
Lay gently thy cold hand upon my brow,
And still the fevered throb of this blind life,
This fragment, mournful yet so fair--this dream,
Aspiring, earth-bound, passionate--and waft me
Where broken harmonies will blend once more,
And severed hearts once more together beat;
Where, in our Father's fold, all, all shall be fulfilled.
RECOLLECTIONS OF FRANCES, COUNTESS RUSSELL
BY JUSTIN McCARTHY
Some of the dearest and most treasured memories of my lifetime are those
belonging to the years during which I had the honour of being received
among her friends by the late Countess Russell.
That friendship lasted more than twenty years, and its close on this earth
was only brought about by Lady Russell's death.
There hangs now in my study, seeming to look down upon me while I write, a
photograph of Lady Russell with her name written on it in her own
handwriting. That photograph I received but a short time before her death,
and it is to be with me so long as I live and look upon this earth.
I had some slight, very slight, acquaintance with the late Earl Russell,
ever best known to fame as Lord John Russell, some years before I became
one of his wife's friends. I met Lord John Russell for the first time in
1858, when he was attending a meeting of the Social Science Association,
held in Liverpool, where I was then a young journalist, and I had the good
fortune to be presented to him. After that, when I settled in London, I met
him occasionally in the precincts of Westminster Palace, and I had some
interesting conversations with him which I have mentioned in published
recollections of mine. During all that time I had, however, but a merely
slight and formal acquaintanceship with his gifted wife.
When I came to know her more closely she had settled herself in her home at
Pembroke Lodge in Richmond Park, and it is with that delightful home that
my memories of her are mainly associated. She received her friends and
acquaintances in general there on certain appointed days in each week. I
need hardly say how gladly I availed myself of every opportunity for the
enjoyment of such a visit, and especially for the enjoyment of Lady
Russell's conversation and companionship.
I have known many gifted women, among them many gifted authoresses, but I
have not known any woman who could have surpassed Lady Russell in the
varied charms of her conversation. Most of us, men and women, have usually
the habit of carrying our occupations with us, metaphorically at least,
wherever we go, and therefore have some difficulty in entering with full
appreciation into conversational fields in which we do not find ourselves
quite at home.
Lady Russell was not like most of us in that quality. Her chief natural
interest, one might readily suppose, would have been centred in questions
belonging to the domain of politics, national and international, she having
been for so great a part of her life the wife and the close companion of
one of England's leading statesmen.
But Lady Russell was endowed with a peculiarly receptive mind, and she felt
an interest quite natural and spontaneous in every subject which could
interest educated and rational human beings--in art, literature, and
science; in the history and the growth of all countries; in the condition
of the poor and the struggling throughout the world; in every effort made
by knowledge, benevolence, and enlightened purpose for the benefit of
humanity. She had evidently also a strong desire to add to her own large
stock of information, and she appears to have felt that whenever she came
into converse with any fellow-being she was in communication with one who
could tell her something which she did not already know.
In this characteristic she reminded me strongly of William Ewart Gladstone.
There is, or there used to be, a common impression throughout many social
circles in this country, that when Gladstone in private was the centre of
any company, he generally contrived to keep most of the talk to himself.
This always seemed to me an entire misconception, for I had many
opportunities of observing that Gladstone in social companionship seemed
much more anxious to get some new ideas from those around him than to pour
out to them from his own treasures of information.
Lady Russell loved to draw forth from the artist something about his art,
from the scholar something about his books, to compare the ideas of the
politician with her own, to lead the traveller into accounts of his
travels, to get from the scientific student some of his experiences in this
or that domain of science, and from those who visited the poor some
suggestions which might serve her during her constant work in the same
direction.
Even on subjects concerning which the greatest and sharpest divisions of
opinion might naturally arise--political questions, for instance--Lady
Russell seemed as much interested in listening to the clear exposition and
defence of a political opponent's views as she might have been in the
cordial exchange of sympathetic and encouraging opinions. When I first
began to make one of Lady Russell's frequent visitors, there was, of
course, between us a natural sympathy of political opinion which was made
all the stronger because of momentous events that had lately passed, or
were then passing, in the world around.
The great Civil War in the North American States had come to an end many
years before I began to visit Lady Russell at her home, and I need hardly
remind my readers that by far the larger proportion of what we call
"society" in England had given its sympathies entirely to the cause of the
South, and had firmly maintained, almost to the very end, that the South
was destined to have a complete victory over its opponents. Lady Russell
gave her sympathies to the side of the Northern States, as was but natural,
seeing that the success of the North would mean the abolition of that
system of slavery which was to her heart and to her conscience incapable of
defence or of palliation.
I had paid my first visit to the United States not many years after the end
of the Civil War--a visit prolonged for nearly two years and extending from
New York to San Francisco and from Maine to Louisiana. I had therefore a
good deal to tell Lady Russell about the various experiences I had had
during this my first visit to the now reunited States, and the lights which
they threw for me on the origin and causes of the Civil War.
I may say here that Lady Russell was always very anxious that the public
should fully understand and appreciate the attitude taken by her late
husband with regard to the Civil War. In a letter written to me on October
20, 1879, Lady Russell refers me to a speech made by her husband on March
23, 1863, and she goes on to say:
It shows unanswerably how strong was his opinion against the recognition of
the Southern States, even at a moment when the tide of battle was so much
in their favour that he, in common, I think, with most others, looked upon
separation as likely to be the final issue. As long as the abolition of
slavery was not openly announced, as he thought it ought to have been, as
one of the main objects of the war on the part of the Federals, he felt no
warm sympathy with their cause. But after President Lincoln's proclamation
it was quite different, and no man rejoiced with deeper thankfulness than
he did at the final triumph of the Northern States, for no man held slavery
in more utter abhorrence.
I have thought it well to introduce this quotation just here because it is
associated at once with my earliest recollections of Lady Russell, and at
the same time with a subject of controversy which may almost be said to
have passed out of the realms of disputation since that day.
The American States have now long been absolutely reunited; there is no
difference of opinion whatever in this country with regard to the question
of slavery, and yet it is quite certain that during the American Civil War
a large number of conscientious, humane, and educated Englishmen were
firmly convinced that the American Republic was about to break in two, and
that the sympathies of England ought to go with the rebelling Southern
States. It is well, therefore, that we should all be reminded of Lord
Russell's attitude on these subjects.
I had much to tell Lady Russell of the various impressions made on me
during my wanderings through the States, and by the distinguished American
authors, statesmen, soldiers--Emerson, Longfellow, Bryant, Oliver Wendell
Holmes, Charles Sumner, Wendell Phillips, General Grant, General Sherman.
With the public career of each of these men Lady Russell was thoroughly
acquainted, but she was much interested in hearing all that I could tell
her about their ways of life and their personal habits and characteristics.
Then there were, of course, political questions at home concerning which
there was deep sympathy between Lady Russell and me, and on which we had
many long conversations. She had the most intense and enlightened sympathy
with the great movements going on in these countries for the spread of
political equality and of popular education.
Every statesman who sincerely and actively supported the principles and
measures tending towards these ends was regarded as a friend by this
noble-hearted woman.
I had been for many years a leader-writer and more recently editor of the
_Morning Star_, the London daily newspaper which advocated the views
of Cobden and Bright, and I had more recently still been elected to the
House of Commons as a member of the Irish Nationalist Party, and thus again
I found myself in thorough sympathy with the opinions and the feelings of
my hostess.
Lady Russell had long been an advocate of that truly Liberal policy towards
Ireland which is now accepted as the only principle by all really
enlightened Liberal English men and women; and she thoroughly understood
the condition, the grievances, the needs, and the aspirations of Ireland.
The readers of this volume will see in some passages extracted from Lady
Russell's diaries and letters how deep and strong were her feelings on the
subject. She followed with the most intense interest and with the most
penetrating observation the whole movement of Ireland's national struggle
down to the very close of her life. Her letters on this question
alone--letters addressed to me--would in themselves serve to illumine even
now the minds of many English readers on this whole subject. Lady Russell
was in no sense a partisan on any political question--I mean she never gave
her approval to everything said or done by the leaders of any political
party merely because the one main object of that party had her full
sympathy and approval. Reading over many of her letters to me on various
passages of the Home Rule agitation inside and outside Parliament, I have
been once again filled with admiration and with wonder at the keen
sagacity, the prophetic instinct, which she displayed with regard to this
or that political movement or political man.
All through these letters it becomes more and more manifest that Lady
Russell's devotedness was in every instance to principle rather than to
party, to measures rather than to men. By these words I do not mean to
convey the idea that her nature led her habitually into any cold and
over-calculating criticism of political leaders whom she admired, and in
whom she had been led to feel confidence.
Her generous nature was enthusiastic in its admiration of the men whose
leadership in some great political movement had won her sympathy from the
first; but even with these her admiration was overruled and kept in order
by her devotion to the principles which they were undertaking to carry into
effect, and by the fidelity with which they adhered to these principles.
Even among intelligent and enlightened men and women we often find in our
observation of public affairs that there are instances in which the
followers of a trusted leader are carried away by their personal devotion
into the championship of absolute errors which the leader is
committing--errors that might prove perilous or even, for the time, fatal
to the cause of which he is the recognised advocate.
Lady Russell always set the cause above the man, regarding him mainly as
the instrument of the cause; and if the alternative were pressed upon her,
would have withdrawn from his leadership rather than tacitly allow the
cause to be misled. This, however, would have been done only as a last
resort and after the most full, patient, and generous consideration of the
personal as well as the public question.
We men do not expect to find in an enthusiastic, tender, and what may be
called exquisitely feminine woman the quality of clear and guiding
discrimination between the policy of the leader and the principles of the
cause which he undertakes to lead. We are inclined to assume that the woman
in such a case, if she has already made a hero of the man, will be apt to
think that everything he proposes to do must be the right thing to do, and
that any question raised as to the wisdom and justice of any course adopted
by him is a treason against his leadership.
Lady Russell never seemed to me to yield for a moment to any such sentiment
of mere hero-worship. She set, as I have said, the cause above the man, and
she measured the man according to her interpretation of his policy towards
the cause.
But at the same time she was never one of those who cannot be convinced
that some particular course is not the wisest and most just to adopt
without at once rushing to the conclusion that the leader who makes any
mistakes must be in the wrong because of wilfulness or mere incapacity, and
is therefore not worthy any longer of admiration and trust.
I have many letters from her, written at the time of some serious crisis in
the fortunes of the Irish National movement, which show the keenest and the
earliest intelligence of some mistake in the policy of the party on this or
that immediate question without showing the slightest inclination to
diminish her confidence in the sincerity and the purposes of its leaders,
any more than in the justice of the cause. I can well recollect that in
many instances she proved to be absolutely in the right when she thus gave
me her opinion, and that events afterwards fully maintained the wisdom and
the justice of her criticism. The reason why so many of Lady Russell's
opinions were conveyed to me by letter was that I had to be, like all my
companions of the Irish Parliamentary Party, a constant attendant at the
debates in the House of Commons, and that many days often passed without my
having an opportunity to visit Lady Russell and converse with her on the
subjects which had so deep an interest for her as well as for me. I
therefore was in the habit of writing often to her from the House of
Commons in order to give her my own ideas as to the significance and
importance of this or that debate, of this or that speech and its probable
effect on the House and on the outer public. Lady Russell never failed to
favour me with her own views on such subjects, and the views were always
her own, and were never a mere good-natured and friendly adoption of the
opinions thus offered to her.
Then, when I had the opportunity of visiting her at Pembroke Lodge, we were
sure to compare and discuss our views in the conversations which she made
so delightful and so inspiring.
One of her marvellous qualities was that her interest and her intellect
were never wholly absorbed in the passing political questions, but that she
could still keep her mind open to other and entirely different subjects.
The chamber of her mind seemed to me to be like one of those mysterious
apartments about which we read in fairy stories, which were endowed with a
magical capacity of expansion and reception.
I have come to her home at a time when, for those whose lives were mainly
passed in political work, there was some subject then engaging the
attention of all politicians in these countries--some subject in which I
well knew that Lady Russell was deeply and thoroughly interested.
But it sometimes happened that there were friends just then with her who
did not profess any interest in politics, and who were mainly concerned
about some new topic in letters or art or science, and I often observed
with admiration the manner in which Lady Russell could give herself up for
the time to the question in which those visitors were chiefly interested,
and could show her sympathy and knowledge as if she had not lately been
thinking of anything else. About this there was evidently no mere desire to
please her latest visitors, no sense of obligation to submit herself for
the time to their especial subject, but a genuine sympathy with every
effort of human intellect, and a sincere desire to gather all that could be
gathered from every garden of human culture.
Many of Lady Russell's letters to me on the events and the fortunes, the
hopes and the disasters of our Irish National movement have in them an
actual historical interest, such as the one dated November 27, 1890, which
is quoted in this volume. It was written during the crisis which came upon
our Irish National party at the time when the hopes of Mr. Parnell's most
devoted friends in England as well as in Ireland were that after the result
of a recent divorce suit Parnell would resign, for a time at least, the
leadership of the party and only seek to return to it when he should have
made what reparation was in his power to his own honour and to public
feeling. In a letter of December 26, 1891, Lady Russell says: "Your poor
country has risen victorious from many a worse fall, and will not be
disheartened now, nor bate a jot of heart or hope."
Lady Russell's letters not merely illustrate her deep and noble sympathy
with the cause and the hopes of Ireland, but also they are evidence of the
clear judgment and foresight which were qualities at once of her intellect
and of her feeling. Scattered throughout her letters to me are many other
evidences of the same kind with regard to other great political and social
questions then coming up at home or abroad. I wish to say, however, that
her letters do not by any means occupy themselves only with political
questions, with Parliamentary debates, and with legislative measures. To
paraphrase the words of the great Latin poet, whatever men and women were
doing in arts and letters, in social progress, and in all that concerns
humanity, supplied congenial subjects for the letters written by this most
gifted, most observant, most intellectual woman to her friends.
One certainly has not lived in vain who has had the honour of being
admitted to that friendship for some twenty years.
I have no words, literally none, in which to express adequately the
admiration and the affection and the devotion which I felt for Lady
Russell. No higher type of womanhood has yet been born into our modern
world.
Lady Agatha Russell is rendering a most valuable service to humanity in
preparing and giving to the world the records of her mother's life which
appear in this volume. A monument more appropriate and more noble could not
be raised over any grave than that which the daughter is thus raising to
the memory of her mother.
APPENDIX
MEMORIAL ADDRESS
BY FREDERIC HARRISON
After Lady Russell's death a few friends decided--unknown to her family,
who were touched by this mark of respect--to put up a tablet to her memory
and hold a Memorial Service in the Free Church at Richmond, Surrey. The
tablet, which is of beaten copper, beautifully worked, bears the following
inscription:--
In memory of Frances Anna Maria, daughter of Gilbert, second Earl of Minto,
and widow of Lord John Russell, who was born November 15, 1815, and died
January 17, 1898. In gratitude to God for her noble life this tablet is
placed by her fellow-worshippers.
The Memorial Service was held on July 14, 1900, when the tablet was
unveiled and the following address was delivered by Mr. Frederic Harrison.
Now that our gathering of to-day has given full scope to the loving
sorrow and filial piety of the children, descendants, and family of
her whom we meet to commemorate and honour--now that the minister,
whom she was accustomed to hear, and the worshippers, with whom she
was wont to join in praise and prayer, have recorded their solemn
union in the same sacred memory, I crave leave to offer my humble
tribute of devotion as representing the general circle of her
friends, and the far wider circle of the public to whom she was
known only by her life, her character, her nobility of soul, and
her benefactions.
I do not presume to speak of that beauty of nature which Frances
Countess Russell showed in the sanctity of the family, in the close
intimacy of her private friends. Others have done this far more
truly, and will continue to bear witness to her life whilst this
generation and the next shall survive. My only title to join my
voice to-day with that of her children and of this congregation
resides in the fact that my memory of her goes back over so long a
period; that I have known her under circumstances, first, of the
highest public activity, and then again, in a time of severe
retirement and private simplicity; that I have seen her in days of
happiness and in days of mourning; at the height of her influence
and dignity in the eyes of our nation and of the nations about us,
as well as in her days of grief and disappointment at the failure
of her hopes, and the break up of the causes she had at heart. And
I have known her always, in light or in gloom, in joy or in misery,
the same brave, fearless, natural, and true heart--come fair or
foul, come triumph or defeat.
Yes! it was my privilege to have known Lady Russell in the lifetime
of the eminent statesman whose name she bore, and whose life of
toil in the public service she inspired; I knew them
five-and-thirty years ago, when he was at the head of the State
Government and immersed in public cares. And I am one of those who
can bear witness to the simple dignity with which she adorned that
high station and office, and the beautiful affection and quiet
peace of the home-life she maintained, like a Roman matron, when
her husband was called to serve the State. And it so happened that
I passed part of the last summer that she lived to see, here in
Richmond, within a short walk of her house. There I saw her
constantly and held many conversations with her upon public
affairs; and perhaps those were amongst the last occasions on which
her powerful sense and heroic spirit had full play before the fatal
illness which supervened in that very autumn.
I do not hesitate to speak of her powerful sense and her heroic
spirit, for she united the statesman-like insight into political
problems with the unflinching courage to stand by the cause of
truth, humanity, and justice. She was not impulsive at all, not
hasty in forming her decisions, still less did she seek publicity
or take pleasure in heading a movement. But, with the great
experience of politicians and of political things which in her long
life and her rare opportunities she had acquired, she saw straight
to the heart of so many vexed problems of our day; and when once
convinced of the truth, she held fast to it with a noble
intrepidity of soul. In a life more or less conversant with public
men now for forty years past, I have rarely known either man or
woman who had a more sound judgment in great public questions. And
I have known none who surpassed her in courage, in directness, and
in fixity of purpose. No sense that she and her friends had to meet
overwhelming odds would ever make her faint-hearted. No desertion
by friends and old comrades ever caused her to waver. No despair
ever touched that stalwart soul, however dark the outlook might
appear; for it was her faith that no right or just cause was ever
really lost, however for the time it were defeated and contemned.
Lady Frances Elliot, as she was before marriage, came of a race of
soldiers, governors, and tried servants of the State, and she
married into a race which has long stood in the front rank of the
historic servants of the Crown and of the people. But neither the
house of Elliot nor that of Russell in so many generations ever
bred man or woman with a keener sense of public duty, a more
generous nature, and a more magnanimous soul. In the annals of that
famous house, whose traditions are part of the history of England,
there has been no finer example of the old motto, _noblesse
oblige_, if we understand it to mean--those who have high place
inherit with it heavy responsibilities. That idea was the breath of
her life to Countess Russell, as assuredly it was also to her
husband, and she whose memory we keep sacred to-day is worthy to
take her place beside that Rachel Lady Russell of old, who, more
than two centuries ago, suffered so deeply in the cause of freedom
and of conscience; she whose blood runs in the veins of the
children who to-day revere the memory of their mother.
The Italians call a man of heroic nature--a Garibaldi or a
Manin--_uomo antico_--"one of the ancient type"--one whom we
rarely see in our modern days of getting on in the world and
following the popular cry. I have never heard the phrase applied to
a lady, and, perhaps, _donna antica_ might be held to bear a
double sense. But we need some such phrase to describe the fine
quality of the spirit which lit up the whole nature of Frances
Countess Russell. She had within her that rare flame which we
attribute to the martyrs of our sacred and secular histories--that
power of inspiring those whom she impressed with the resolve to do
the right, to seek the truth, to defend the oppressed, at all cost,
and against all odds.
It has been my privilege to have listened to many men and to some
women who in various countries and in different causes have been
held to have exerted great influence, and to have forced ideas,
principles, and reforms on the men of their time. But I have
listened to none in our country or abroad who seemed to me to
inspire the spirit more purely with the desire to hold fast by the
right, to thrust aside the wrong, to be just, faithful,
considerate, and honourable, to feel for the fatherless and the
poor, and not to despise the humble and the meek. I know that all
my remaining term of life there will remain deeply engraven on my
memory all that she said, all that she felt, in the last
conversation I ever held with her at the very commencement of her
last fatal illness. Weak and suffering as she was, unable to rise
from her invalid chair, she asked me to come and tell her what I
knew, and to hear what she felt about the public crisis of that
time (I speak of the end of 1897). The storm of South Africa was
even then rising like a cloud no bigger than a man's hand out of
the southern seas. I listened to her: and her deep and thrilling
words of indignation, shame, pity, and honour sank into my mind, as
if they had been the last words of some pure and higher spirit that
was about to leave us, but would not leave us without words of
warning and exhortation to follow honour, to serve truth, to eschew
evil and to do good, to seek peace and ensue it. I knew well that I
was listening to her for the last time; for her life was visibly
ebbing away. But I listened to her as to one who was passing into a
world of greater permanence and of more spiritual meaning than our
fleeting and too material world of sense and sight. And for the
rest of my life I shall continue to bear in my heart this message
as it seemed to me of a nobler world and of a higher truth.
Yes! she has passed into a nobler world and to a higher truth--the
world of the good and just men and women whose memory survives
their mortal career, and whose inspiring influence works for good
ever in generations to come. In this Free Church I can speak
freely, for I too profoundly believe in a future life of every good
and pure soul beyond the grave, in the perpetuity of every just and
noble life in the sum of human progress and enlightenment. And in a
sense that is quite as real as yours, even if it differ from your
sense in form, I also make bold to say, this corruptible must put
on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality--Death is
swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave,
where is thy victory? Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye
steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of Humanity, for
as much as ye know that your labour is not in vain in Humanity.
Surely we have before us a high example of what it is to be
steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in good work, in the memory
of Frances Elliot Countess Russell, who united in herself
principles typified in the historic mottoes of her own house and
that of her husband's--who kept her high courage under all
adversities and opposition, in the spirit of _che sarà sarà_,
"stand fast come what may"--in the spirit of that other motto of
the Elliots, _suaviter el fortiter_, "with all the gentleness
of a woman and all the fortitude of a man."
INDEX
Abbotsford
Abercromby, Lady Mary (_see also_ Dunfermline, Lady)--
Marriage
letters from Lady John Russell
letters from Lady Minto
correspondence with Lord John Russell
letter from Lord Minto
visit of Lady John Russell
_mentioned_ in the letters
Abercromby, Mr. Ralph, afterwards Lord Dunfermline
Minister at the Hague
Aberdeen, Lord--
The Ecclesiastical Titles Bill
consents to form a Ministry
and Lord John Russell
and the Eastern Question
and Reform
Lord John's resignation
Lord John's appreciation of
resignation
Abergeldie Castle
Acton, Lord, "Historical Essays and Studies"
Adams, Mr.
Adelaide, queen of William IV
Admiralty, the,
Lord Minto at
Mrs. Drummond's description
"Adullamites," the
Affirmation Bill, Gladstone's
_Alabama_, case of the
Albert Hall, foundation stone laid
Albert, Prince Consort--
and Lord John
Prussian sympathies
visit to Pembroke Lodge
and Italy
at Coburg
death
"Trent" affair
"Life of Prince Albert,"
_otherwise mentioned_
Aldworth
Allen, Grant, "Science in Arcady"
Althorp, Lord
and the Irish Coercion Bill
Amberley, Lady
death of
Amberley, Lord, _see also_ Russell, John--
Engagement
defeated at Leeds
returned for Nottingham
maiden speech
defeat in 1868
letters from Lady Russell
death of
_otherwise mentioned_
American Civil War, the--
England's position
seizure of the Southern Commissioners
Lord Russell's speech on
feeling in England
Anderson, Dr., of Richmond
Anti-Corn Law League bazaar at Manchester
Armenian refugees at Pembroke Lodge
_Arrow_, the, coasting vessel
Athanasian Creed, the
Aumale, Duc d'
Austen, Jane
"Emma,"
Austria--
Influence in Germany
unpopularity of the Government
and Denmark
Palmerston's policy towards
Conference of Vienna
proposals of, and resignation of Lord John Russell
and Italy
after Solferino
Peace of Villafranca
and the proposed Congress at Zurich
Prussian war on
cession of Venetia
cause of the Franco-German War
Azeglio, Marquis d', Piedmontese Minister
Balmoral
Lord John Russell at
Baring, Mr., Chancellor of the Exchequer
tariff proposals
Beaumont, Lord
Bedford, (6th) Duke of
Bedford, (7th) Duke of,
letters from Lord Russell
visit of Lord and Lady John Russell
on the attacks on Lord John
letter from Lady John
death
Bedford, (9th) Duke of
Bennett, Rev. W.J.E., of St. Paul's
Berlin, Lord Minto appointed Minister
Bernard, Dr., acquitted
Bernstorff, Count
Berrys, the Miss
Bessborough, Lord, Irish opinions
on the Coercion Bill
Birmingham,
enfranchisement
bombs manufactured in
Bismarck, Count--
In Berlin
and Palmerston
declares war on Austria
the Franco-German War
Blyth, Miss Lilian [Mrs. Wilfred Praeger]
letter from Lady Russell
Blyth, Rev. F.C.
Bognor, news of Reform at
Boileau, Mr., letters to Lady Melgund
Bonaparte, Louis
Bourbons, the
Napoleon's questions concerning
Bowhill
Bowood, Lady John Russell at
Bowring, Sir John, cause of the war with China
Bradlaugh
Braico, Dr. Cesare
Brazil, Emperor of, at Pembroke Lodge
Bright, John--
Defeat of
at Chesham Place
speeches
and Reform
letter to Lady Russell
_otherwise mentioned_
British and Foreign School Society
Broadstairs, visit of the Russells
Brooke, Rev. A. Stopford,
letter to Lady Agatha Russell
Brooks's,
news of Lord John's acceptance of the Colonial Seals
Brougham, Lord--
and Lord Melbourne's dismissal
and the Corn Law
and William IV
Browning, Robert
Brunow, Baron, Russian ambassador
Bryant, W.C.
Bryce, Mr. James, letter to Lady Agatha Russell
Brydone, Mrs., death
Buccleuch, Duke of
lends Bowhill to Lord John
on Disraeli
Bühler, Miss
letters from Lady Russell
Buller, Charles
Buol, Count, Austrian Minister
Burdett, Sir Francis, and Lord John Russell
Burnet, Bishop
Burns, Robert
Byron, Lady
Byron, Lord
"Giaour,"
"Childe Harold," _quoted_
Cairns, Lord, _mentioned_
Campbell, Lord, "Lives"
Canada,
Governorship offered to Lord Minto
Lady Fanny and the Patriots
Cannes, Lord and Lady Russell at
Canning, Lord Granville's correspondence with
Canning, Sir Stratford, British Ambassador at Constantinople
Carnarvon, Lord, resignation
Castlereagh, Lord
Catholic Emancipation Bill
Cavour--
and Napoleon III
resignation
the terms of unity
and Garibaldi
_otherwise mentioned_
Ceremonies, religious,
Lady John Russell's opinion concerning
Channing's, Dr., writings
Charles X
Chartist movement
Chartres, Duc de
Chelmsford, Lord, saying of
Chenies, Lady Russell's funeral at
Chester, Fenian attempt on the arsenal
Chesterfield, Lord, "Letters"
Chillon
Chinese War, the
Lord John Russell's speech
Palmerston's policy
Chorley Wood, Rickmansworth
Christian, Princess, at Cannes
_Chronicle_, the, and the Eastern Question
Church of England
the Gorham case
Clarendon, Lady
Clarendon, Lord--
Viceroy of Ireland
at the Foreign Office
letter to Lord Russell
letter from Lord Russell
despatch to Naples
letter to Lord Granville
Coalition Ministry, the
results
Cobden, Richard--
Oratory
Lord William Russell on
comments on Lord John,
motion regarding the China measures
defeat in 1857
Free Trade Treaty with France
_otherwise mentioned_
Cockburn, Lord Chief Justice, speech
Coercion (Ireland) Bill
Coombe Wood, Richmond
Conservative Party, the--
"Moderate Reform"
split on Catholic Emancipation
position in 1852
Conspiracy to Murder Bill
Corn Laws, the--
Lord John Russell's proposal
repeal of
Macaulay on
Peel's measure
repeal passed
Cowley, Lord
Cowper, William
Cranborne, Lord, resignation of
(_see also_ Salisbury, (3rd) Marquis)
Crimean War--
Events leading to
victories
Lord Malmesbury's report
Bright's History _cited_
French alliance
Currie, Mr. Raikes
_Daily News_, the--
and the Eastern Question
attack on Lord John
Lord Russell's letters
on Baron Stockmar, article _quoted_
Dante
Davitt, Michael, "Leaves from a Prison Diary"
Denmark, war with Schleswig-Holstein
Derby, (14th) Earl of--
Ministry, 1851
fails to form a Government, 1855
cabinet, 1858
resignation in June
denounces the Government's policy
and the franchise
resignation, 1868
illness
_otherwise mentioned_
Derby, (15th) Earl of (_see_ Stanley, Lord)
Dickens, Charles--
On the ragged schools
"David Copperfield,"
at Pembroke Lodge
congratulates Lord John Russell
letters to Lady John Russell
Lady Russell's preference for
on Lord John Russell, _quoted_
Dieppe, the Russells at
Dillon, John, on Lord John's resignation
Dillon, John, and Parnell
Disraeli, Benjamin (Earl of Beaconsfield)--
personality
Budget
and Free Trade
Lady John Russell, on
on Lord John Russell's motion
his Franchise Bill
the Duke of Buccleuch on
succeeds Lord Derby
resignation
letter to Lord Russell
Parliamentary courage
_otherwise mentioned_
Drewitt, Dr. F.D.
Drouyn, M. de L'Huys, resignation of
Drummond, Mrs. (_see also_ Lister, Adelaide)
on the Minto family, _quoted_
letter from Lady Russell
Duff, Sir Mount Stuart Grant, letter to Lady Russell
Dufferin, Lord, letter to Lady John Russell
letter from Lady John Russell
Dunfermline, Lady (_see also_ Abercromby, Lady Mary)
letters from Lady Russell
death in Rome
Dunrozel, Haslemere
Durham, Bishop of, letter from Lord John Russell
Durham, Lord, in Canada
Eastbourne
Eastern Question, the, events leading to the Crimean War
Lord Palmerston's policy
Gladstone on
Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, the
Edinburgh
Edinburgh University
Education, Lord Russell and
Education Bill
Mr. Forster's Act
Elba, Napoleon in, Lord John Russell's account
Eliot, George
"Adam Bede,"
Lady Russell on,
Elliot, Charles [Lady Russell's brother]
Elliot, George [Lady Russell's brother]
Elliot, George [uncle of Lady Russell]
Elliot, Gilbert [brother of Lady Russell]
Elliot, Gilbert, afterwards Dean of Bristol
Elliot, Henry [brother of Lady Russell]
_mentioned_ in the letters
goes to Australia
visit of
Elliot, John [uncle of Lady Russell]
member of Parliament for Hawick
Elliot, Lady Fanny, quotation from "Reminiscences of an Idler"
description of, (_see_ Russell, Lady John)
Elliot, Lady Charlotte (_see_ also Portal)
_mentioned_ in the letters
Sir Henry Taylor and
Elliot, Lady Harriet
Elliot, Miss, daughter of the Dean of Bristol, a reference to Lord Russell
Emerson, R.W.
Endsleigh
English society, Lady Russell on
Etchegoyen, Comte d'
Eugénie, Empress, and the Russells at Chislehurst
Eversley, Lord
_Examiner, the, on Lord John Russell's resignation
Exeter Hall, lecture by Lord John at
meetings
Factory children, education of, Bill for
Farrington, Rev. Silas, letter to Lady Agatha Russell
Fawcett, Professor, speech
Fazakerlie, Miss
Fenians, movement of 1867
Fitzmaurice, Lord
"Life of Lord Granville" _quoted_
Florence, robbers of
the Russells in
Foreign Exchanges, Mr. Goschen's book on
Forster, W.E.
the Elementary Education Act
Fortescue, Chichester, Chief Secretary for Ireland
Lord Russell's three pamphlets
Fox, Charles James--
and Lord John Russell
Napoleon on
foreign policy
_otherwise mentioned_
Fox Club, the
France--
The July revolution
deposition of Louis Philippe
and the Greek crisis
and Denmark
the _coup d'état_ of December, 1851
events leading to the Crimean War
Cobden's Free Trade Treaty
Franchise, Mr. Locke King's motion
Franco-German War, outbreak
Franklin, Sir John
"Free Church," the
Free Church of Scotland, establishment
Free Church, Richmond, the memorial tablet
Free Trade, the new principle
Lady John and
number of Free Traders in 1846
Froude, J.A., at Chesham Place
on removal of Irish grievances
"Life of Lord Beaconsfield," passage _quoted_
Garbarino, Villa
Gardiner, Dr.
Garibaldi--
Cavour and
and the Sicilian rebels
attack on Naples
at Pembroke Lodge
letter to Lord John
_otherwise mentioned_
George III
Napoleon on
George IV, death
Napoleon on
story of
Germany--
The _Zollverein_
influence of French affairs on
the Crown Princess
the Franco-German War
the Crown Prince and the war
Gibbon, historian, appearance
Gladstone, Right Hon. W.E.--
and Lord John Russell
and the Corn Laws
at the War and Colonial Office
his first great speech
his first Budget
resignation
Italian sympathies
letters regarding the Neapolitan prisoners
Budgets
defeated at Oxford
and the Franchise
introduces the Reform Bill, March, 1866
reports Government defeat to Lord John
and Disraeli's Franchise Bill
letter to Dr. Pusey _quoted_
the Irish Church question, 1868
visits to Pembroke Lodge
speech on Irish Church disestablishment
conversation on Parliamentary courage
the Affirmation Bill
letters to Lady Russell
his article on the Melbourne Ministry
and Parnell
Lady Russell on
"Gladstonian," the term
his last Cabinet
_mentioned_ in the letters
Justin McCarthy on
Gladstone, Mrs.
letter to Lady John Russell
at Pembroke Lodge
Glenelg, Lord
Godfrey, Miss Alice (_see_ Russell, Mrs. Rollo)
Gortschakoff, Prince, Russian emissary
Goschen, Mr., appointment
Graham, Sir James
resignation
Grant, General
Granville, Lord--
Letter to Lady John
correspondence with Canning
sent for by the Queen
and Italy
correspondence with Lord Clarendon
Gray, Maxwell, "The Silence of Dean Maitland"
Greece, the crisis of 1850
Russian policy
Greville, Charles--
_Cited_ on Lord John Russell
on the Greek crisis
Grey, Lady
Grey, (2nd) Earl--
Prime Minister
resignation, May, 1834
Grey, (3rd) Earl,
death
Grey, Sir George,
"Security of the Crown" Bill
and Fergus O'Connor
rumoured Irish rebellion
and the Conspiracy laws
Guizot,
and Louis Philippe
dismissal and his reply to Louis Philippe
Habeas Corpus Act, suspension
Harcourt, Sir William Vernon, letter to Lady Russell
Harrison, Frederic--
Friendship with Lady Russell
letter to Lady Agatha Russell
the Memorial address
Hatton, Sir Christopher, life
Hawick
freedom presented to Lord John Russell
Herbert, Sidney
resignation
on the Italian question
Herzegovina, insurgents of
Hill, Rowland, Penny Postage
Hindhead
Hodgkinson, Mr., amendment
Holland House
dinners at
Holland, Lady,
in Portugal
death, 1845
Holland, Lord
in Portugal
Napoleon on
Holmes, O.W.
death of
Home Rule Controversy, the
Lady Russell on
Hooker, Sir Joseph
Hoole, Alderman
Hope, James
Horsman, Mr., opposition to Reform
Howard, Lady Louisa
Howick, Lord, motion of, thrown out
(_see also_ Grey, (3rd) Earl)
Hudson, Mr., mission to Italy
Hudson, Sir James, letter from Turin to Lady John
Huguesson, Mr.
Humboldt, friend in Berlin
Hume, appearance
Hungary, Kossuth's revolution
Ireland--
The Viceregal Court
situation in 1843
Lady John Russell on the Irish question
state of, 1845
condition in 1846
Peel's measures for, 1846
Lady John Russell on the condition of
measures for relief
the rebellion of 1848, preparations
suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act
rumoured rebellion in the South
visit of the Queen, 1849
reception of Lord Russell's letter to the Bishop of Durham
Lord Russell's pamphlets
the Fenian movement, 1867
the Irish Church question, 1868
Gladstone's measure
Lord Russell's sympathy towards
Lady Russell and the Irish movement
Irish University Bill
Italy--
and Austria
Lord John Russell and united Italy
Lord Granville and
federation
first Parliament
defeat at Custozza
cession of Venetia
the Russells in
visit of Lord Russell, 1869
Jamaica Bill, 1839
Jaucourt, attaché
Jeffrey, Francis, Lord, letter to Lady John Russell
Joachim, Dr.
Joachim, Miss Gertrude (_see_ Russell, Mrs. Rollo)
Josephine, Empress
Jowett, Dr., letter to Lady Russell
Keats, John
Kent, Duchess of
King, Mr. Locke, franchise motion
Kinglake, _cited_
his book
Kossuth, reception in London
Lacaita, Mr. (afterwards Sir James Lacaita), mission to the Russells
Lansdowne House, Lord John Russell at
Lansdowne, Lady
Lansdowne, Lord--
and Lord Minto
Lord John Russell and
Irish views
and the suffrage
refuses office
and Lord John's resignation
letters to Vienna
Lausanne
Layard, Henry
Lecky, W.E.H., a picture of Pembroke Lodge _quoted_
Liberals--
Position in 1837
number in 1846
Lady Russell on
Lincoln, President
Lister, Adelaide (_see also_ Drummond, Mrs.)
Lister, Elizabeth (Lady Melvill)
Lister, Isabel (_see also_ Warburton, Mrs.)
Lister, Miss
letters to Lord John Russell
Lister, Tom (_see_ Ribblesdale, Lord)
Lockhart, "Life of Sir Walter Scott"
London--
Lady John Russell's life in
London society, Lady John Russell on
news of the revolution in France
Lord John Russell returned for
Italian conspirators in
Longfellow, H.W.
Lords, the House of--
On the Corn question
Peel's Irish Land Bill thrown out
vote of censure on Lord Palmerston
Lord Russell's proposition
Lady Russell on
Louis XIV
Louis XVIII, Napoleon's opinion regarding
Louis Philippe,
and the Parisians
deposition in 1848
visits Pembroke Lodge
Louis, Princess, of Hesse
Lovelace, Lord, "Astarte"
Lowe, Robert--
On Disraeli, _quoted_
opposition to Reform
his retort on Gladstone
_otherwise mentioned_
Lowell, J.R.
"Democracy"
Lyons, Lord,
on the American situation
in Paris, 226
Lyttelton, Lady, on Prince Albert
Lytton, Bulwer, "The New Timon," _quoted_
McCarthy, Justin--
Friendship with Lady Russell
correspondence with Lady Russell
"Recollections of Frances, Countess Russell"
Macaulay, letter to his sister
_otherwise mentioned_
Malakoff, Duc de, French Ambassador
Malmesbury, Lord,
accounts of the Crimea
reports fall of the Derby Government
Manchester--
Enfranchisement
Anti-Corn Law League Bazaar
attack on the prison van
Manchester, Bishop of, and education
Manning, Cardinal
Manzoni, "Carmagnola"
Martineau, Dr., writings
Maynooth College, endowment of
Mazzini
Melbourne, Lord--
Dismissal, 1834
Ministry, 1837
return to power
his famous remark
Government of 1835
defeat in 1841
at Woburn
_otherwise mentioned_
Mr. Gladstone's article on the Melbourne Ministry
Melgund, Lady (see also Minto, Lady)--
Letter from Lady John Russell
letters from Mr. Boileau
letters from Lord John Russell
Melgund, Lord
Melrose Abbey
Michelangelo
Militia Bill, the
Lord John Russell defeated on
Mill, J.S.,
"Autobiography,"
"Nature," Lady Russell's remarks
_otherwise mentioned_
Milton
"Paradise Lost"
Minto House--
Description
return to in 1831
in 1834
the home at
Lord John Russell at
visit of Lord and Lady John Russell
Minto, Lady (mother of Lady Russell)--
Home influence of
illness in Berlin
death of her mother
a description
arrival of Lord John Russell
letters to Lady Mary Abercromby
"A Border Ballad"
letters written from Endsleigh
letter to Lord John Russell
letters from Lady John Russell
illness, 1852
death
_mentioned_ in the letters
Minto, Lady (Lady Melgund)--
Letters to Lady Russell
letters from Lord Russell
Minto, Lord--
At Minto
and Reform
appointed Minister in Berlin
and the Peel Ministry
First Lord of the Admiralty
Mrs. Drummond's recollections _quoted_
and Lord John Russell
visits to Lady John Russell
in London
on Lord John Russell
death of Lady Minto
letters from Lady John Russell
on Lord John Russell's acceptance of the Colonial Seals
death
_otherwise mentioned_
Minto village
Moffatt, George, letter to Lady John Russell
Moore, Thomas--
Songs at Bowood
"Remonstrance"
lines _quoted_ by Lady John Russell
papers of, edited by Lord John Russell
_otherwise mentioned_
Morley, Lord--
"Life of Gladstone" _cited_ on Lord Russell's resignation
Mr. Rollo Russell's letter to _The Times_
_cited_ on the conduct of other Ministers
_otherwise mentioned_
Motley, J.L., on _The Times_
_Morning Advertiser_, and the Eastern Question
_Morning Herald_, and the Eastern Question
_Morning Post_, and Palmerston's Eastern policy
_Morning Star_, the
Napoleon I--
in Elba, Lord John Russell's account
story of the poisoning
letters to Josephine
Napoleon III--
and the Provisional Government
his _coup d'état_ of December, 1851
policy
Orsini outrage on
peace of Villafranca
Le Pape et le Congrès
and Cavour
Sir James Hudson on
his idea of "United" Italy
Garibaldi on
and Lord Russell
and the Franco-German War
prisoner of war
at Chislehurst
National debt, reduction
National Guard of Paris
singing the "Parisienne"
Louis Philippe and the
Neapolitan prisoners at Pembroke Lodge
Newcastle, Duke of, at the War Office
_otherwise mentioned_
Newspapers
Nice, cession to France
Nicholas, Emperor
partition of Turkey proposed
death
Nonconformist deputation to Lord Russell
Norton, Mrs., description of Rogers, _cited_
Norwich, Hinds, Bishop of
Nottingham Castle, burning of
O'Brien, Smith
O'Brien, William, and Parnell
O'Connell, Daniel
arrest in 1843
and Lord John Russell
O'Connor, Fergus, and the Chartists
Orsini
Osborne
Owen, Sir Richard
Oxford
Oxford movement, the, Lord John Russell and
Pacifico, Don, compensation
Palmerston, Lady
Palmerston, Lord--
On the dismissal of Lord Melbourne, _cited_
and Grey
at the Foreign Office
the Greek crisis, 1850
his finest speech
the Queen's letter to Lord John Russell
reception of Kossuth
the Militia Bill
and the _coup d'état_
dismissal
and Lord John Russell
resignation on the Eastern Question and resumption of office
return to power, his first Cabinet
policy
Lord John in the Colonial Office
policy in the Crimea
his appeal to Lord John Russell
his reply to Lord John's offer to resign
China policy
general election of 1857
Conspiracy to Murder Bill
resignation on the Conspiracy Bill amendment
Ministry of 1859
Italian policy
the Cabinet of 1859
social legislation under
illness in 1865
death,
_otherwise mentioned_
Panmure, Lord
Papal Bull, September, 1850
Paris--
Louis Philippe and
deposition of Charles X
carnival
Wellington in
life in
visit of the Russells
horrors of the war
Paris, Comte de
"Parisienne," the
Parliament, opening in 1836, description
Parnell, C.S.
Party Government, Lady Russell on
Pasolini, Count, memoir _quoted_
Patmore, Coventry, "1867"
Paul, Herbert, on Coercion Bill
_cited_ on the Commons' debate on the Greek crisis
on Russell's resignation
Peel, Archibald
letter from Lord Russell
Peel, General
resignation
Peel, Lady Georgiana,
letter from Lord Russell
verses to
letter from Lady Russell
Peel, Sir Robert--
The Ministry of 1835
his Tamworth manifesto
resignation
his position in 1837
return from Italy
defeat
Ministry of 1841
the Corn Law
position in 1843
resignation, 1845
and Russell
influence
gives up Protection
return to power, 1846
Lady John Russell on his speech
Lord William Russell on
his measures for Ireland
revenge of the Protectionists
and the revolution in France
his last speech and death
Parliamentary courage
Gladstone on
_otherwise mentioned_
Peel, Sir Robert, Chief Secretary for Ireland
Peelites, alliance with the Whigs
Pembroke Lodge--
Offered by the Queen to Lord John
the "Wishing Tree"
the home at
visit of Louis Philippe
other French visitors
literary visitors
a few recollections
Windsor summer-house
visit of Garibaldi
a Cabinet dinner
verses written for the summer-house
visit of Queen Victoria
children at
a picture by Lecky
Armenian refugees at
_otherwise mentioned_
People's Charter, the, 1837
Persigny, M.
memoirs
Petersham,
church at
school at
Petersham Park
Phillips, Wendell
Pitt, William
Plombières
secret treaty of
Poerio
Poor Laws, Lady John Russell on
Pope, Napoleon's designs concerning the
Portal, Lady Charlotte,
letters from Lady John
letter to Lady Russell
Walpole's "Life of Lord John Russell"
Presbyterian Church of Scotland
Protectionists,
abandoned by Peel
and the Coercion Bill
and the Peelites
Prussia
and Denmark
Napoleon and
war on Austria
Prussia, Crown Prince of
Prussia, Crown Princess of
_Punch_, ballad on Lord John Russell
Pusey, Dr., letter from Gladstone, _quoted_
Puseyites, the
Putney House, Lady Russell's description
Redcliffe, Lord Stratford de, policy
Reform, Lord John Russell and
Reform Bill of 1831
1832
Lord John Russell's Bill
1854
Disraeli's Bill,
1866
Reid, Stuart, _cited_
Renens-sur-Roche
the Russells at
Revolutionary movement of 1848
Ribblesdale, Lady, 1st Lady John Russell
marriage with Lord John Russell
her death
Ribblesdale, (2nd) Lord
Ribblesdale, (3rd) Lord
Richmond, visit of Garibaldi
Richmond, Duke of (1836)
Richmond Free Church
Richmond Park
Rigby, Dr.
Ripon, Lord
Robertson, Rev. F.W.
Rodborough Manor, purchased by Lord John
Roebuck, Mr.--
Motion of confidence
motion for a Commission of Inquiry
the debate on
comments on Lord John
Roehampton House
Rogers, Samuel--
Letters to Lord and Lady John Russell
note to Lady John, written in his ninetieth year
breakfasts
Lady Russell's verses to
his reply
Roman Catholics, Lady John Russell on
the Papal Bull, September, 1850
Romilly, Colonel
on Lord John accepting the Colonial Seals
letters from Lord Russell
Romilly, Lady Elizabeth,
letters from Lady John Russell
_otherwise mentioned_
Romilly, Sir Samuel
Roseneath, Lord John Russell's stay at
Russell, Lord Arthur
Russell, Arthur, son of Mr. Rollo
Russell, Bertrand, son of Lord Amberley
Russell, Earl (Frank, son of Lord Amberley)
Russell, Lady Emily
Russell, George William Gilbert
Russell, George W.E., on his uncle, _quoted_
Russell, John (_see also_ Amberley, Lord)
Russell, Lady Agatha
_Letters from_--
Mrs. Drummond
Lady Russell
Mrs. Warburton
Mr. Farrington
the Rev. Stopford Brooke
Mr. Frederic Harrison
Mr. James Bryce
Russell, Lady Georgiana (_see also_ Peel, Lady Georgiana)
letter from Lady Russell
letter from Lord Russell
married to Mr. Archibald Peel
_otherwise mentioned_
Russell, (1st) Lady John (_see_ Ribblesdale, Lady)
Russell, Lady John--
Birth and early life at Minto
beginning of her Diaries
visit to the Continent
return to Minto
at Roehampton House
in Berlin
return to Minto, 1834
at the Admiralty
description by Mrs. Drummond
visits of Lord John
her engagement
at Endsleigh
birth of John
lines to her son
at Woburn
illness in Edinburgh
on the government of Ireland
at Chorley Wood
illness in 1847
birth of George William Gilbert
the Petersham School
birth of Francis Albert Rollo
recollections of the crisis in December, 1851
book of poems
and Samuel Rogers
birth of Mary Agatha
death, of her mother
in Vienna
Italian sympathies
visit of Mr. Lacaita
relations with her father
lines for the summer-house at Pembroke Lodge
return to Endsleigh
in Venice
on Irish Church disestablishment
Visit to Italy, 1869
her views on elementary education
in Paris
in Switzerland
at Cannes
sorrows of 1874
death of Lord Amberley
the "Life of Prince Albert"
death of Lord Russell
her subsequent life
"Family Worship"
her love of children
her religion
favourite authors
lines on Samuel Rogers
his reply
friendships
"Lines to Georgy"
sympathy for Ireland
on the home at Minto
lines written after reading "Leaves from a Prison Diary"
visit to the Queen
on Home Rule
illness in 1897
last illness and death
funeral
"Lines on Death"
"Recollections" by Justin McCarthy
memorial address by Frederic Harrison
Russell, Lady Victoria (_see also_ Villiers, Lady Victoria)
Russell, Lord Charles, letter to Lady John Russell
Russell, Lord John--
and the Oxford movement
efforts for Reform
loss of the first and introduction of the second Reform Bill
his engagement to Lady Fanny Elliot
at Minto
_mentioned_ in the earlier letters
his speech on sugar
returned for the City of London
early life and career
his account of Napoleon
the "Remonstrance" of Thomas Moore
character and personality
and the Queen
on Endsleigh, _quoted_
and the Corn Laws
speech on the Irish question
his Free Trade letter
called to office
letters from Lady Russell
the first Reform Bill
Irish views
opposes the Coercion Bill, 1846
his Ministry, 1846
measures for the relief of Ireland
the offer of Pembroke Lodge
his Irish Coercion Bill
suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act
school founded at Petersham
at Balmoral
his letter to the Bishop of Durham
resignation and resumption of office
events leading to the fall of the Ministry
resignation
and the dismissal of Palmerston
foreign policy
defeated on the Militia Bill
and the Protestant Nonconformists
his attitude towards Lord Aberdeen
and Palmerston
in the Coalition Cabinet
the Reform Bill withdrawn
resignation
the attack, on
fails to form a Government
British Plenipotentiary at Vienna
in the Colonial Office
his policy at Vienna
resignation
"Life of Fox"
lecture at Exeter Hall
in Italy
his speech on the Chinese question
returned for the City
reception at Sheffield
the amendment to Lord Palmerston's Conspiracy Bill
Italian sympathies
Foreign Secretary under Palmerston
his share in the creation of Italy
determines England's Italian policy
despatch of 27th October, 1860, _quoted_
becomes Earl Russell
speech on the American War
Prime Minister
the Reform Bill
in Venice
his pamphlets on Ireland
character from the Diary
visit to Italy, 1869
the "Introduction," _quoted_
in Paris
opinion on education
at Cannes
"Essays on the History of the Christian Religion"
sorrows of 1874
the Herzegovina insurgents
his last years
Nonconformist deputation to
death
Gladstone on
recollections of Justin McCarthy
and the American Civil War
_otherwise mentioned_
_Letters to_--
Lord Melbourne
Lady Mary Abercromby
Lady Russell
Duke of Bedford
Lady Minto
the electors of London
Lord Clarendon
Lady Minto (Lady Melgund)
Lady Georgiana Russell
Archibald Peel
Colonel Romilly
Russell, Lord William, letter to Lady John,
Russell, Lord Wriothesley,
letter to Ladyl John,
on the attacks on Lord John,
Russell, Odo (afterwards Lord Ampthill),
letter to Lord John,
Russell, Rollo--
his letter to The Times,
letters from Lady Russell,
marriage,
letter from Mrs. Sinclair,
otherwise mentioned,
Russell, Mrs. Rollo (Miss Alice Godfrey), death of,
Russell, Mrs. Rollo (Miss Gertrude Joachim),
letter from Lady Russell,
Russell, Rachel, daughter of Lord Amberley,
Russell, Rachel, Lady,
Russell, Sir Charles, and Parnell,
Russell, William, Lord,
Russia--
Napoleon and,
and England,
Napoleon on,
and the Greek Crisis,
Baron Brunow's wish for,
Palmerston's policy towards,
events leading to the Crimean War,
Lord John's negotiations,
St. Fillans, the Russells at,
Salisbury, (2nd) Marquis of--
On Disraeli's Franchise Bill, _quoted_,
and Reform,
Salisbury, (3rd) Marquis of,
San Remo, portrait of Lord John at,
the Russells at,
Sardinia, the King of, and Garibaldi,
Lord John's speech on,
Savoy, Napoleon's designs,
cession of,
Schleswig-Holstein, war with Denmark,
negotiations,
Scotland, Lady Russell's love for,
Scott, Sir Walter--
"Lay of the Last Minstrel,"
Minto,
"Ivanhoe,"
"Heart of Midlothian,"
_otherwise mentioned_,
Scottish Church, the, secession from,
Security of the Crown Bill,
Sedan,
Sedition Bill, Ireland,
Selborne, Lord,
Sévigné, Mme. de, story related by,
Shakespeare,
Sheffield, reception given to Lord John Russell,
Shelley,
Sherman, General,
Shooting, Lady Russell on,
Simpson, Sir James, letter to Lady John Russell,
Sinclair, Mrs.,
letter to Rollo Russell,
Slave question, the,
the Jamaica Bill,
Smith, John Abel--
Letter from Lord John,
letters to Lady Russell,
his fears for Lord John's seat,
Smith, Sydney,
"Life and Letters,"
Soult, Marshal,
at the coronation,
South Africa,
Spain--
Napoleon on,
Napoleon's policy towards,
Prince Leopold's candidature,
Spaventa, in England,
Speculative Society of Edinburgh University,
Spencer, Herbert,
"The Bias of Patriotism,"
Spencer, (2nd) Earl, death,
Spencer, (4th) Earl, Letter to Lady John,
Spencer, (5th) Earl,
Stanley, Dean, pamphlet,
letter to Lady Russell,
Stanley, Lady Augusta,
Stanley, Lord, afterwards 15th Lord Derby,
and the franchise,
Stockmar, Baron,
Gladstone's estimation,
Sugar question, Lord John Russell's speech
Sumner, Charles
Swanwick, Miss Anna
Swift, Dean, on lies, _quoted_
Switzerland
visits of the Russells
Sydenham, Lord, on Lord John Russell's sugar speech
Talleyrand, Napoleon and
Tavistock
Taylor, Jeremy
Taylor, Sir Henry--
Visit to Pembroke Lodge
"Philip van Artevelde"
a picture of Lady Russell
letter from Lady Russell
Tennyson, Alfred
Aldworth taken by Lord Russell
death of
"Life of Tennyson" his son
Test and Corporation Acts, repeal
Thackeray, "Sterne" and "Goldsmith"
_Times, The_--
Lord Melbourne's dismissal
and Palmerston
Rollo Russell's letter
on the state of America
Lord Russell's letter
publication of the secret document
Tory Party--
Breaking up of
position in 1843
influence of Lord Derby on
Tractarianism
_Trent_, the, Confederate emissaries seized
Trevelyan, Mr., and the Chartists
Trevelyan, Sir George, "Life of Macaulay," _cited_
Tuileries, the clock incident
a dinner at
Turin, the Parliament of 1860
Turkey--
Events leading to the Crimean War
the Herzegovina insurgents
Lady Russell on
Tyndall, Mrs.
Tyndall, Professor
Unionists, Lady Russell on the
United States, European policy towards
Unsted Wood, 70
Vattel, jurist, _quoted_
Venetia, and the Federation
cession to Italy
Vestris, Mme.
Victor Emmanuel--
Policy
and the Peace of Villafranca
and Garibaldi
King of Italy
entry into Venice
Victoria, Queen--
First Parliament
coronation
and Peel
Court balls
and Lord John Russell
on events in France
the Chartist movement
letter to Lord John Russell regarding the public prayer
at Balmoral
visit to Ireland, 1849
and Palmerston, the letter to Lord John Russell
conversation with Lady John Russell on Palmerston
visits to Pembroke Lodge
sends for Lords Aberdeen and Lansdowne
letter to Lord John Russell asking him to serve under Lord Aberdeen
Palmerston's return to power
Lord Derby's Cabinet, 1858
sends for Granville and afterwards for Palmerston
and Italy
visit to Coburg
death of the Prince Consort
letter to Lord Russell on Palmerston's illness
refuses Lord Russell's resignation, 1866
lays foundation stone of the Albert Hall
letter to Lady Russell at Cannes
invitation to Lord Russell
letter to Lady Russell on death of Lady Amberley
character
letter to Lady Russell on death of Lord Amberley
letter to Lady Russell on death of Lord Russell
requests Lady Russell to remain at Pembroke Lodge
letter to Lady Russell on marriage of her son
visit of Lady Russell to Vienna
Conference of
"Vienna Note," the
Villafranca, peace of
Villiers, Lady Victoria--
Letter to Lady Russell
letter from Lady Russell
marriage
death of
_otherwise mentioned_
Villiers, Montagu, Bishop of Durham,
vote of thanks to Lord John Russell
Villiers, Mrs. E.
Voysey, Mr.
Wales, Prince of, illness, 1871
Wales, Princess of
Walpole, Sir Spencer
_cited_ on Lord John's resignation
"Life of Lord John Russell"
"The History," _quoted_
Walton, Isaac
War Office incompetence
Warburton, Mrs. (_see also_ Lister, Isabel)--
Letter from Lady Russell
letter to Lady Agatha Russell
Waterloo,
Lady John Russell's impressions,
George IV and
Wellington, Duke of--
Policy
resignation in 1830
Waterloo
the temporary Cabinet
personality from the letters
despatches
Napoleon on
and George IV
Westcott, Dr.
Westminster Abbey, coronation of Queen Victoria
Westminster School
Whigs, the--
Position in 1841
and the Corn Laws
and Peel's Sedition Bill
alliance with the Peelites
and Russell
Wicksteed, Rev. Philip H., speech of
William IV--
Dismisses Melbourne
opening of Parliament, February, 1836
death
and Brougham
Windsor Castle
Lady John Russell at
Wiseman, pastoral letters (1850)
Woburn Abbey
War, Lady John Russell on
Woman, Lady John Russell on her position
Wood, Lady Mary
Wood, Sir Charles
retirement
Wyhoff, Chevalier, "Reminiscences of an Idler"
Yarrow
Young Ireland party
Zürich, Congress at, Napoleon's plans