(Great Yarmouth.)
As your pages have lately contained several communications on the
subject of General Wolfe, I send you the following story, which I heard
from a lady now deceased. Some time after Wolfe's death his family
wished to give some memorial of him to the lady who had been engaged to
him, and they consulted her as to the form which it should take. Her
answer was, "A diamond necklace;" and her reason, because she was going
to be married to another person, and such an ornament would be useful.
My informant, whose birth, according to the _Peerage_, was in 1766, had,
in her earlier days, often met this lady, and described her as showing
remains of beauty, but as no wiser than this anecdote would lead us to
suppose her.