_Mrs. Tempest._--Can any of your correspondents give me any account of Mrs.
(or, in our present style, Miss) Tempest, a young lady who died the day of
the great storm in Nov., 1703, in honour of whom Pope's early friend Walshe
wrote an elegiac pastoral, and invited Pope to give his "winter" pastoral
"a turn to her memory." In the note on Pope's pastoral it is said that "she
was of an ancient family in Yorkshire, and admired by Walshe." I have
elsewhere read of her as "the celebrated Mrs. Tempest;" but I know of no
other celebrity than that conferred by Walshe's pastoral; for Pope's has no
special allusion to her.