Lady Morgan’s Memoirs
Sydney Owenson to Thomas Charles Morgan, October 1811
October, 1811.
“Do the P——s and
Castlereaghs go to you at Christmas?
when does the Butler come to town, and
when do the Carberys leave
you?”—answer all. I don’t send you a kiss to-day, I am tired
of the diurnal act, but I lay my head upon your bosom in
a wife-like way, and suffer you to press me gently to your heart, which is more
than you deserve! I am glad you changed your pen—I
hate poesy—
“When this you see, Remember me.” |
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“His mouth was
Primmer, A lesson I took, I swore it was pretty, And then kiss’d the book.” |
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that is the text, vide “Peeping
Tom;” but I did not intend to make so free with you this three
months, for you have behaved very ill indeed lately, and
talked like a fool very often. Livy does not know what to make of you! but I
forgive—lay by your nervousness, and get some common sense.
Lady Olivia Clarke [née Owenson] (1785 c.-1845)
The younger sister of Lady Morgan who married Dublin physician Sir Arthur Clarke
(1778-1857) in 1808. She wrote songs and a play, and published in the
Metropolitan Magazine and
Athenaeum.
Lady Jane Manners- Sutton [née Butler] (1779-1846)
The daughter of James Butler, ninth Baron Cahir; in 1815 she married Thomas Manners
Sutton at Baron's Court, the residence of the Marquis of Abercorn in County Tyrone.
