Byron’s remains rest in an old leaden coffin, side by side
with those of his mother, and close by lies his daughter, Ada,
Countess of Lovelace, who died in 1852. When the vault was
opened to permit of the interment of Lady Lovelace many persons
visited the church in order to catch a glimpse of the coffin.
Upon one occasion a little girl was prevailed upon to descend by
the stone staircase into the vault and she returned carrying a
narrow strip of faded velvet in her hand, torn from the poet’s
coffin. Among the group around the mouth of the graves was a
tall, dark foreigner, who eagerly questioned the child as to
her possession, and finally, in exchange for a piece of gold,
received the strip of cloth. That man was Kossuth.--_Frank
Leslie’s._
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=Relief by Crying=--See CRYING BENEFICIAL.
=Religion=--See ALTAR, THE; CHARACTER.