CHAPTER VII.

THE TRIALS OF GENIUS; DOMESTIC TROUBLES; LETTERS TO MRS. TAYLOR;

JOURNEY TO FRANCE; ARRIVAL AT PARIS; THE LOUVRE; THE FIRST

CONSUL; CHARLES JAMES FOX; THE SOIRÉE; KOSCIUSKO.

We have seen how diligently Mrs. Opie laboured during the year 1801, and

with what success her efforts had been crowned. Yet this was the

severest season of domestic anxiety and trouble, she was, as a wife,

destined to experience. She tells us, in her Memoir of her husband, that

although he had a picture in the Exhibition of 1801, which was

universally admired, and purchased as soon as beheld, yet “he saw

himself at the end of that year, and the beginning of the next, almost

wholly without employment; and even my sanguine temper yielding to the

trial, I began to fear that, small as our expenditure was, it must

become still smaller. Not that I allowed myself to own that I desponded;

on the contrary, I was forced to talk to him of hopes, and to bid him

look forward to brighter prospects, as his temper, naturally desponding,

required all the support possible. But gloomy and painful indeed were

those three alarming months, and I consider them as the severest trial

that I experienced during my married life. However, this despondency did

not make him indolent; he continued to paint regularly as usual; and no

doubt by that means increased his ability to do justice to the torrent

of business which soon after set in towards him, and never ceased to

flow till the day of his death.”

There is something very touching in these few and simple words. The

earnest hopeful nature of the wife supporting the desponding spirits of

her gifted husband. Like all men of true genius, he was subject to dark

shadows and melancholy broodings. He aspired high, studied much,

laboured hard, and was too painfully alive to his deficiencies, ever to

rest satisfied with the point to which he had attained; the voice within

cried ever, “higher!” and he must run until he fell. “During the nine

years that I was his wife, (she continues,) I never saw him satisfied

with any one of his productions, and often, very often, have I seen him

enter my sitting room, and throwing himself in an agony of despondence

on the sofa, exclaim, ‘I never, never shall be a painter, as long as I

live!’”

Happily for women they have, in the little domestic cares of every day

life, a source of employment and interest, which, compelling their

attention, diverts their thoughts into wholesome channels, and saves

them from uselessly brooding over evils they cannot avert. The domestic

_ménage_ of the painter’s household had to be governed, its mistress

tells us, with a strict and watchful economy, and an observant eye must

be kept upon all that went on there. But this was not all; as a

mistress, the conduct of her servants appears to have occasioned her no

small trouble, and to her faithful _confidante_ she reveals her

anxieties on more than one occasion; from two of these letters we find

that she learned by experience, what she afterwards described with her

pen; the first letter seems almost a comment upon one of her tales on

“Lying,” or rather to have furnished the text for it. Both must have

been written early in the year 1802, as in the month of August

following, the journey to Paris took place.

MY DEAR FRIEND,

Your most kind and gratifying letter, so wholly undeserved on my

part, and (considering your many avocations) so generous on

yours, demanded an earlier acknowledgment; but it is one of the

charms of our intimacy that it is proof against neglects like

mine. I know you will not cease to love me, nor think that I

have ceased to love you, though even months pass without my

assuring you of my unaltered regard. But at last I sit down to

write to you, and you might suppose I take up my pen

_conscience-urged_; no such matter; I write to crave your advice

on a subject that weighs heavy on my mind, and one on which at

present I cannot consult my husband; a difficult affair to act

properly in, as I want to reconcile pity and justice. You must

know, that, after having for some time past had some reason to

suspect the strict honesty, in trifles, of my maid Anne, I had,

last Friday, the mournful certainty of detecting her in a course

of most flagrant iniquity; and what is worse, when I brought my

charge against her, she was most firm in denial, and accused me

of the grossest cruelty and injustice in accusing her; while a

series of ready _lies_, abounding in contradictions, which left

no doubt of her guilt on my mind, sunk her still lower in my

opinion. I was easily prevailed on to keep the affair a secret

from my husband for a short time, in order to avoid an _éclat_,

which would blast the poor wretch’s character for ever; yet how,

my dear friend, can I any way act as I ought, without doing

this? Her cry is, “give me a character for God’s sake!” but how

can I? Even if I keep her till August, can I then, however

correct her future conduct, say “yes” to an enquiry concerning

her honesty? If she had a _heart_, (but I am certain she has

not,) I would keep her and conceal her fault, (for while

reputation is safe, there is hope of amendment,) but of her I

have no hope. Now, my dear friend, tell me how I can stand

between her and the punishment of her guilt, with honour and

justice to myself? A young maid-servant turned out, without the

chance of a character, is in so exposed and desperate a

situation, that I shudder to think of the consequences, and, as

my too great confidence and my carelessness _may_ have laid

temptation in her way, I feel a degree of responsibility for her

faults, which distresses me exceedingly.

I really should feel it incumbent on me to make an apology for

worrying your brains with my domestic concerns, did I not know

it is the honest pride of your life to be useful, and that you

are always glad of an opportunity of serving me.

The string that pulls me towards Norwich begins to grow tight.

To Cornwall, or even to France, we cannot afford to go; at least

so Mr. Opie thinks; and that is the same thing.

My next letter (and I shall certainly _answer_ your answer)

shall contain more amusing stuff. At present I have only time to

say, Kemble was arrested for a debt, kindness had made him

incur, (for £200,) as he came out of the theatre on Saturday

last. He is not yet in limbo, but to jail he is resolved to go

on Wednesday, unless Mr. Sheridan pays the money; and never will

he play again, till it is paid. Sheridan swears and protests

that he will pay the debt, and that he knew not of the

transaction; whereas, it is certain Sheridan went to the

bailiff, and for fear of a riot, prevailed on him to put off the

arrest till the play was over. We think Sheridan dares not let

him go to jail, and go he will. Adieu! anxiously hoping to hear

from you,

I remain,

Yours most affectionately,

A. OPIE.

How well this letter illustrates some of her most strongly marked

characteristics! that earnest desire “to reconcile pity with justice;”

that readiness to take to herself any blame she might possibly have

incurred, as an extenuation of the fault of another, and the lingering

hope that the delinquent might be reclaimed. These are traits which

those who knew her well will recognize as her very own.

Here is her promised answer to Mrs. T.—

Tuesday, 1802.

MY DEAR FRIEND,

As opening and detaining letters to and from active partizans is

the order of the day, and as the enclosed contains _numbers_, I

write to you instead of my father, and shall get my letter

directed for me. Franks are now of no use, as even _Peers_ can’t

frank, being no longer Lords of parliament; therefore, were they

sacred to these _licensed_ rogues, the one I have for to-morrow

is good for nothing. _Indefatigable_, alias your cousin Peter,

whom I saw just now at Mr. Smith’s, desired me to send Lord C.’s

letter; so I obey. Be so good also, as to tell my father that

his letter, franked by Mr. Smith, did not reach till Saturday;

and tell him I wrote to him yesterday, enclosing the peer’s

first letter.

Your kind answer to my statement of vexation gave me the

greatest satisfaction, and I hope by your excellent advice and

assistance to be able, with a very little trouble, to put such a

degree of order in my subsequent _ménage_ as shall prevent, in

future, any gross imposition. Anne’s conduct since the

detection, and what I have heard of it previously to it, takes

from me all idea of my carelessness having led her into

temptation. I believe her to be thoroughly bad.

Yesterday evening, at half-past five, we saw the balloon, from

the painting-room window, distinctly. Suddenly it was lost in a

cloud, and the feeling it gave me was a very strange one. Soon

after it emerged again, considerably higher than it was before;

then it entered another cloud and disappeared. It is past two,

and Mr. Garnerin is not returned, but I have been to the

Pantheon to inquire concerning him, and I find he landed at

Colchester in an hour and forty minutes!

Of election matters what can I say? Till I read the squibs, &c.

I could not, _con amore_, say, I wished Mr. Windham to be

ousted; but now indignation has assisted principle to conquer

feeling, and I will _not_ say of the agreeable delinquent,

“If to his share some manly errors fall

Hear him converse, and you’ll forget them all,”

or, “Look in his eyes, and you’ll forget them all,”

(which you please, Mrs. Taylor.)—I was to have gone to Mr.

Hiliar’s on Sunday or Monday; but, if the election is to be on

_Monday_, I can’t leave town to be out of the way of the news on

Tuesday, especially as I should not meet with sympathy in my

feelings there. Adieu! I must go to see again whether Garnerin

is returned. I wonder when your travellers come back.

Believe me, ever most affectionately yours,

A. O.

P. S. I want to come down to the election ball. What a shock

poor Garnham’s death was to me!

In the autumn of this year her long cherished desire to visit France,

and more especially Paris, was gratified.[9] Her husband needed

relaxation after the anxiety and labour of the last few months, and

there was now an unexpected opportunity afforded to the painter to study

those glorious _chefs d’œuvre_ of art which the conquering arms of

Napoleon had assembled at the Louvre.

They were joined in this excursion by a party of friends, of whom Mrs.

Opie mentions Samuel Favell, Esq. and Mrs. Favell, and her early

acquaintance, Miss Anne Plumptre. On the 14th of August, 1802, they

reached Calais, and for the first time she experienced “the strangely

interesting moment when one’s foot first touches a foreign land, and

when one hears on every side a foreign language spoken by men, women,

and children.” The first impression seems to have been one of

bewilderment, for which she was not at all prepared, occasioned by the

confusion of voices that greeted them. Having recovered from this

perplexing sensation, she was agreeably surprised to see a well known

face, that of Le Texier; he who for many years delighted the English

public by his admirable French readings. The recognition was mutual, and

she was welcomed by him to the land of his birth.

An amusing adventure befell our inexperienced traveller, as she seated

herself at the Hôtel de Grandsire, to enjoy the delicious fare of the

excellent _table d’hôte_, and be initiated at once into the mode of a

French dinner, “so contrary to our own;”—

Opposite to me (she says) sat a gentleman, wearing what I

conceived to be a foreign order; and as he was very alert in

rendering me the customary table-attentions, I ventured to

address him in French, but he did not reply. I therefore

concluded that he was of some nation in which French was not

very generally spoken; and so far I was not very wrong in my

conjecture, as my opposite neighbour turned out to be an English

messenger, just arrived with dispatches from our government! and

the order which gave him such distinction, in my curious eyes,

was nothing more than a silver greyhound, which messengers then

wore! My mistake exposed me to some good humoured banter; but,

perhaps, it was well for me that I made it, as it put me a

little on my guard against one of my infirmities, that of

forming hasty conclusions. * *

The next morning the travellers started for Paris, going a very long

stage before breakfast,

The tediousness of which, (she says,) as the country had no

charms to boast, was in a degree relieved to me by the

occasional beauty and picturesqueness of the costume of the

peasants, both men and women; but the whiteness of the caps and

full sleeves, of even the young women, sometimes formed an

unpleasing contrast with their dark, sunburnt, and almost

parchment-looking complexions.

After many tedious delays on the road, occasioned by the voiturier’s

“unreasonable care of his horses, as he would not allow them to move

after seven o’clock,” and various little events of small interest, they

reached Paris, and she thus describes her feelings on the occasion:—

At length we entered the suburbs of the metropolis, and saw

written in chalk on the walls on both sides, and in giant

letters, “_L’Indivisibilité de la Republique_;” but all traces

of republicanism were so rapidly disappearing, that the word

without the second syllable would have described it better;

namely, “invisibility.” But to me every other consciousness was

soon absorbed in the joyful one of being at last in Paris, that

city which I had so long desired to see.

Being advised to go to the Hôtel of the Rue des Etrangers, they repaired

thither, and were soon installed in commodious apartments; the street,

then the best in Paris, opening at one end, on the Place de la Concorde,

where “the perpetual guillotine” stood, while at the other end was the

Church de la Madeleine.

By this time my restless curiosity was at its height, and I was

anticipating some days of great enjoyment, when my husband, who

had run off to the Louvre long before the rest of us were ready,

returned with a countenance of such vexation and suffering, that

I could not help asking him what calamity had occurred?

“Calamity indeed!” he replied, “the Louvre is shut to-day, but

then it will be open to-morrow, so that it would not much

signify; but I cannot stay here—the whiteness of

everything—the houses—the ground we walk upon—all dazzle and

blind me; and if I stay, I shall lose my eyesight, and then I

shall be a lost man.” This was uttered in such evident

suffering, that for a few minutes I was overwhelmed with

consternation and disappointment. I knew that go we must, if

staying endangered my husband’s sight; and I still recall, with

exquisite pain, the trial of that hour.

Happily they succeeded, by some means, in procuring admittance to the

Louvre immediately, and she says:—

As the painter, while contemplating the wonders of the museum,

ceased to feel the inconvenience which the man had thought

unbearable, I had the joy of finding that we should not quit

Paris that day. * * * * *

Why should I dwell on emotions which every one probably has felt

on entering the Louvre gallery? My own pleasure, my ignorant

pleasure, was nothing to the more scientific delight of my

husband; and I recall with melancholy satisfaction, the

enjoyment which he derived from this visit to the French

metropolis; an enjoyment purchased and deserved by many years of

the most assiduous labours in his difficult profession; and

which, with the single exception of a week spent in a visit to

Flanders, a few years previously, was the only relaxation to his

well principled industry, in which he ever allowed himself to

indulge.

On the second day after her arrival in Paris, she thus records an event

which greatly delighted her.

I was in the Louvre gallery and standing alone before the

picture of the Deluge, by N. Poussin, (my favourite station,)

when I heard some one say that the First Consul was just going

to enter his carriage, on his way to the Conservative Senate.

“Oh that I could but see him!” exclaimed I aloud, and in French;

on which, one of the guardians of the gallery said, “_Eh bien!

mademoiselle, suivez moi et vous le verrez_.” Without daring to

lose a moment in order to seek for my companions, I followed

rapidly whither he led. He took me through a door at the extreme

end of the gallery, opening into a room on the floor, and

against the wall of which were several unframed pictures.

Another door led us into an apartment, which looked immediately

on the Place du Carousel. Ladies were sitting at the window,

who, at my guide’s request that they would make room for an

English stranger, kindly allowed me a seat beside them.

I arrived just in time to see the procession form. The carriage

of Buonaparte, drawn by eight bays, was already at the palace

gate, and was soon followed by that of the other consuls,

Cambaceres and Le Brun, drawn by six black horses. Soon after,

the _corps d’élite_, the body guard, and the troop of Mamelucs,

made their appearance; and Rustan, the favourite Mameluc of

Napoleon, was also at his post, awaiting his master. At length

an increased noise at the door announced that he was coming, and

I gazed to an almost painful degree of intensity, in order to

catch one glimpse of this extraordinary man; but he sprang into

his carriage with such rapidity that not one of us could see

him! Rustan quickly jumped up behind, and the procession went

forward. It was, I own, a striking sight; but I did not think

equal in beauty and grandeur to the procession of our king to

the House of Lords, when he goes to open or prorogue the

Parliament.

Who knows what views of royal splendour to come, were, even

then, floating before the mind of Napoleon! He was going that

morning to realize and enjoy the highest present object of his

“vaulting ambition.” He was going, for the first time, to open

the Conservative Senate, as First Consul for life. He had taken

the first step on the path to despotic power; he had ascertained

the extent of his own influence; he had succeeded in his

endeavours to be voted a sort of Dictator for life; and he had

proved that the self-denying and noble example of Washington had

been thrown away on him. But even then, at this seeming height

of his proud career, I do not remember to have heard him greeted

by a single shout; the evidences of a people’s love did not hail

his presence; and no eager and exulting crowd hung on his

carriage wheels; and when I turned from the window, as the

_cortège_ disappeared, I felt disappointed, not only because I

had not seen Buonaparte, but because there was no expression

heard of animating popular feeling.

Returning to join her party in the picture gallery after this adventure,

Mrs. Opie found there an object of nearly equal interest to her; the

“loved and distinguished patriot” of her own country, Charles James Fox,

who, with his wife and party, had arrived in Paris the day before, from

the Netherlands. Being introduced by a mutual acquaintance, Mr. Opie

took the opportunity of presenting a letter of introduction from Mr.

Coke, of Holkham, and they were presently engaged in conversation

together. At this moment an officer of the court came to announce to Mr.

Fox that he would be admitted, at all times, into the Louvre; adding

that a room as yet closed to the public and containing some first-rate

works of art, should be immediately opened to him and his party.

Availing themselves of the courteous invitation given them to accompany

him, the party gladly followed in his train;

But my husband, (says the proud delighted wife,) walked by his

side; and as they walked along, the Jerome of Domenichino drew

their attention, and they stopped before it. On some part of

this celebrated picture they differed in opinion. Mr. Fox,

however, instead of replying to the artist’s remarks, with proud

superciliousness, as if he wondered that he should presume to

disagree with him, said, “Well, to be sure, you must be a better

judge of such points than I am.” And I saw by my husband’s

pleased and animated countenance, as they proceeded, (though I

did not hear their subsequent remarks,) that he felt conscious

he was conversing with one, who was capable of appreciating the

soundness of his opinions, and generous enough to respect his

judgment.

Having reached the promised room, I found to my surprise, that

it was the one into which I had already been, and I was rather

ashamed to see that I had passed, without noticing it, the _chef

d’œuvre_ of Raphael, the far famed Transfiguration! When,

however, raised up as it was by the attendants, and placed to

advantage, sideways to the light of the window on the left, I,

as well as the rest of the party, stood before it, lost in

admiration! Some of its admirers had seen it before, but to the

painter—to him who was the most capable of appreciating all its

various beauties, it imparted a new and intense delight, beyond

the power of words to express. How he rejoiced that we had

arrived before it was hung up, as its present situation enabled

him to view it to perfection! While we were still gazing on this

wonder of art, some one said the First Consul was returning in

state from the Conservative Senate, and that the procession

could be seen from the window near us. Accordingly, all the

company, myself excepted, crowded to the window; but our

greatest man, I own, turned away, and resumed his station before

the picture, while his wife observed to me that, considering

Buonaparte was a republican, he seemed very fond of state and

show. Again her distinguished husband went to the window, and

again turned away. It was the first time he had ever seen aught

appertaining to the consular government, and it was natural that

his curiosity should be excited; but there was evidently a

feeling uppermost in his mind, which struggled with his wish to

indulge in it, and before the procession was out of sight, it

had ceased to appear an object of interest to him.

The day after the events just mentioned, Mr. and Mrs. Opie called at the

Rue Richlieu, to pay their respects to Mr. Fox, and accepted his

invitation to dine with him there on an early day. The company they met

on that occasion, was too numerous to admit of general conversation, and

she only records one fact mentioned by their host, as illustrating the

strange changes in times of revolution.—He said, “that nine-and-twenty

years before, he had supped in the room in which they were then dining,

with the celebrated and witty Maréchal Richlieu, whose residence the

hotel then was.”

Mrs. Opie mentions, _en passant_, that this was the only time they saw

Mr. Fox, until he came to sit to her husband, for the whole length

picture which Opie painted of him, for Mr. Coke. This far-famed picture

cost the painter much anxiety; and, during the progress of the work, he

was greatly distracted by the conflicting opinions of friends, who

crowded to watch the work; and interrupted by the impatience of the

sitter, who was eager to be released from the annoyance of sitting. Mr.

Fox perceived and felt for the uneasiness of Opie, and kindly whispered

him, “Don’t mind what these people say, you must know better than they

do.”

The picture, when completed, gave general satisfaction, and Mrs. Opie

says, “I think I may without partiality say, it is worthy of the artist,

the owner, and the original.”[10]

The last time she ever saw Mr. Fox was when he was chaired on his return

to Parliament, after he had accepted office, and alarming was the change

in his appearance:—

With a heavy heart (she says) I plucked a laurel leaf from that

car of triumph, which I feared that he filled for the last time;

and I, indeed, saw him no more; but on his decease, I went to

the house of Nollekens, to see the cast taken from his face

immediately after death. It was lying on the table, by the side

of that of his dear friend Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire, and

of William Pitt, his powerful opponent. The two latter masks I

could look at, and did look at with painful interest and serious

meditation: but when I took up the other, I laid it down, and

ran out of the room; I could not bear to survey the ravages

which disease and death had made in that benevolent countenance;

indeed the features were not recognizable, and though I often

returned to gaze on the others, on _that_ I could never look

again.

Mrs. Opie next gives some pleasant recollections of the evenings she

spent in the society of the most distinguished persons then in Paris,

and especially in the house of Helen Maria Williams, and a beautiful

Irish Countess, the friend of that lady. We select the account of her

interview with Kosciusko.

One evening, at Lady ——’s, we met a party, consisting chiefly

of ambassadors from different nations, and other strangers. I

had not long entered the room, when our hostess led me up to the

Turkish ambassador, and desired me to “make the agreeable to

him.” “Can he speak French?” said I. “No, but here is a

gentleman who will interpret between you.” At the same time she

introduced to me a gentleman in Asiatic costume, and I readily

seated myself by the Turk. He was a little elderly man,

splendidly attired in the dress of his country; and I prepared

to answer his questions. One of them was, “how long I had been

in Paris?” and when my reply, “a few days only,” was repeated to

him, he said, not very gallantly, “that he concluded so, from my

complexion,” which, I was very conscious, was tanned, by the

broiling heat of the sun on the recent journey, to a red brown.

At last we ceased to converse through our interpreter, and

substituted signs for words. For instance, he took my fan, and

made me understand that he wanted to know what I called it; and

I tried to make him comprehend that it was fan in English, and

_éventail_ in French. He then pronounced its name in Turkish;

and I was learning to speak it after him, when I was interrupted

by my husband, who, with a glowing cheek and sparkling eye,

exclaimed, “Come hither, look, there is General Kosciusko!” Yes,

we did see Kosciusko; “Warsaw’s last Champion!” he who had been

wounded almost to death in defending his country against her

merciless invaders; while (to borrow the strong expressive

figure of the poet)—

“While Freedom shriek’d as Kosciusko fell!”

Instantly forgetting the ambassador, and, I fear, the proper

restraints of politeness, I took my husband’s arm, and

accompanied him to get a nearer view of the Polish patriot, so

long the object to me of interest and admiration. I had so often

contemplated a print of him in his Polish dress, which hung in

my own room, that I thought I should have known him again

anywhere; but whether it was owing to the difference of dress, I

know not, but I saw little or no resemblance in him to the

picture. He was not much above the middle height, had high cheek

bones, and his features were not of a distinguished cast; with

the exception of his eyes, which were fine and expressive, and

he had a high healthy colour. His forehead was covered by a

curled auburn wig, much to my vexation, as I should have liked

to have seen its honourable scar. But his appearance was

pleasing, his countenance intellectual, his carriage dignified;

and we were very glad, when our obliging hostess, by introducing

us, gave us an opportunity of entering into conversation with

him. He spoke English as well as we did, and with an English

accent. On our expressing our surprise at this unusual

circumstance, he said he had learned English in America. The

tone of his voice was peculiar, and not pleasing; however, it

was Kosciusko who spoke, and we listened with interest and

pleasure; though, at this distance of time, I am unable to say

on what subject we conversed. What I am going to relate,

however, it was not likely that I should forget—

During the course of the evening, while I was standing at some

distance, but looking earnestly at him, and speaking to some one

in his praise, contrasting, as I believe, his unspotted

patriotism with the then suspected integrity of Buonaparte, he

suddenly crossed the room, and coming up to me, said, “I am sure

you were speaking of me, and I wish to know what you were

saying.” “I dare not tell you,” replied I. “Was it so severe

then?” I bade him ask my companion. And on hearing her answer he

thanked me, in a tone of deep feeling. “I have a favour to beg

of you,” said he, “I am told that you are a writer, pray do

write some verses on me; a quatrain will be sufficient, will you

oblige me?” I told him I could rarely write extempore verses,

and certainly not on such a subject, as I should wish to do it

all the justice possible. “Well then,” said he, “I will await

your pleasure.” I saw him again only once before I returned to

England; but the next time that his birthday was commemorated at

Paris, I wrote some verses on the occasion, and sent them to him

by a private hand.

During the rest of that memorable evening, when we had the

gratification of seeing the Polish patriot and of conversing

with him, I did not venture to resume the seat next the Turkish

ambassador which I had so unceremoniously quitted; but I

contrived to enter into conversation with the interpreter, whose

handsome figure and features, added to the gracefulness of his

costume, made him, next to our hostess, the most striking

looking person in the assembly. He spoke French fluently, and

his manner was particularly pleasing.

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[9] Mrs. Opie published an account of this journey in Tait’s Magazine,

vol. iv., 1831. From this account we have extracted several of the most

interesting passages. She says, in a few prefatory remarks, that it had

originally been her intention to give an account of her visit to Paris

in 1829, but that, while endeavouring to do this, so many recollections

of her first journey recurred to her mind, that she was induced to alter

her purpose, and prefer relating the events of the earlier visit.

Probably in doing this she made use of the original letters which she is

known to have written home to Dr. Alderson at the time; and having done

so, no longer preserved them.

[10] This picture is now at Holkham.

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