1Lady Caroline Lamb died in 1828, and Lord Melbourne became Prime Minister in 1835.

2The second Lady Aberdeen died in 1833, and Lord Aberdeen became Prime Minister in 1852.

3Lady Rosebery died in 1890, and Lord Rosebery became Prime Minister in 1894.

4Her husband was William Lamb, afterwards Lord Melbourne. He was Prime Minister in 1834 and 1836–41.

5See p. 101.

6Lord Melbourne died 24th November 1848.

7See p. 40.

8The correspondence is printed in C. Kegan Paul’s Life of William Godwin.

9She told Lady Morgan she loved him chiefly because he stood by her when no one else did.

10Lady Melton in Dr. Lindsay; Lady Clara in Lionel Hastings; Lady Bellenden in Greville.

112nd August 1826.

12Disraeli describes Lady Caroline as Lady Monteagle in Venetia, and Mrs. Humphry Ward very skilfully uses Lady Caroline’s career as the motive of her novel, The Marriage of William Ashe.

13Printed in A. H. Markham’s Northward Ho!, 1879.

14He was under eight years old, and Miranda herself was barely nine.

15But his fatherly affection leads him to say, in regard to writing to him, “Write bad rather than not write at all.”

16Fuller died in 1841. His wife survived him until 23rd September 1869.

17He did not succeed to the Baronetcy until 1830.

18From lines by Mrs. Abdy, appended to an engraving of Lawrence’s portrait of Lady Peel.

19Louis-Philippe and Queen AmÉlie.

20In June 1831 Mrs. Bulwer Lytton heard a ragged newspaper boy cry:

“Good news for the poor! Great and glorious speech of His Most Gracious Majesty William the Fourth! The Reform Bill will pass. Then you’ll have your beef and mutton for a penny a pound. And then you’ll be as fine as peacocks for a mere trifle. To say nothing of ale at a penny a quart.”

21The Mintos belonged to the Scottish Presbyterian Church.

22Afterwards Lord Amberley.

23Lady Georgiana Peel.

24Known to later generations as Willis’s Rooms.

25In 1814.

26The poem appears in Weeds and Wildflowers, by E.G.L.B., a volume privately printed at Paris in 1826.

271881.

28In 1860.

29It is now at Broadlands. Although the background is unfinished it is a fine and characteristic piece of work.

303rd September 1847.

31Now the Naval and Military Club.

3221st January 1868.

331868.

3429th July 1837.

35Another time she writes of Disraeli as “our political pet.”

36Now 29 Park Lane.

37Afterwards Emperor Napoleon III.

38An allusion to the passing by the Commons of the Jews’ Oaths of Abjuration Bill on 3rd July.

39Of the Rothschilds.

40An allusion to the Whitebait Dinner at Greenwich.

41Anthony de Rothschild had been created a Baronet at the New Year.

42Wife of Baron James de Rothschild, founder of the Rothschild firm in Paris.

43Worth Park, Sussex, the seat of Mrs. Montefiore, Lady de Rothschild’s mother.

44The well-known business house of Messrs. Rothschild in the City of London.

45The late Lord Rothschild.

46In 1867.

47Cf. Lord Ronald Gower, Reminiscences.

4824th January 1873.

499th January 1873.

50Headmaster of Eton.

51Queen Victoria.

52The Lord Chancellor.

53See p. 56.

54A picture showing an unusual side of the stern disciplinarian. He was sixty-eight.

55Mr. Gladstone was Vice-President of the Board of Trade and Master of the Mint.

56By Samuel Warren.

57The Right Hon. Thomas Grenville (1755–1846), politician and book collector. His bequest of books to the British Museum forms the Grenville Library.

58Minister for War and the Colonies. Afterwards Lord Derby, and Prime Minister in 1852, 1858, and 1866.

59Frederick William IV.

60With whom Mrs. Gladstone soon formed a lasting friendship.

61The Duke of Sutherland’s London house, now the London Museum.

6216th June 1842.

63She was appointed to the office in 1842, and held it until 1851.

64The Princess Royal, afterwards Empress Frederick of Germany.

65Her sister, Lady Lyttelton.

66Born 18th October 1842. Afterwards Mrs. Wickham.

67Born 1844.

68Born 1845.

69He had gone to London on the 16th.

70Nicholas I.

71Now Lord Gladstone.

72He visited and made notes concerning 5530 churches in England and Wales. Notes on the Churches of Kent, by Sir Stephen Glynne, Bart., 1877.

7329th July 1864.

74Mr. Gladstone died three weeks after the letter was received.

75They consisted chiefly of boys whose father or mother had died in the London Hospital.

76Cf. her “Cry of the Children,” first printed in Blackwood’s Magazine, August 1843.

7726th November 1879.

78Afterwards Edward VII.

79Now George V.

80The surname Bannerman was taken when her husband inherited, under his uncle’s will in 1872, a considerable fortune and the Castle Belmont property in Forfar.