The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart
Chapter 23: 1853-54
John Gibson Lockhart to Charlotte Lockhart Hope, 11 April 1854
“Tuesday, April 11, 1854.
“Dear Charlotte,—I
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chair in my own old room once more.
I stood my long journey well enough, having pleasant society
throughout—viz., William Osborne
and his wife (Caroline Montagu of
Rokeby), and their niece, Miss Fazakerley, and
as far as Paris, the Duke of Wellington.
The Rhone being dried up, we found difficulty in getting the boat replaced, but
finally hired and posted (five maîtres and five domestiques) in a solemn
cast-off diligence. At Lyons we reached running water again, and on to Paris so
and by rail. I dined one day with Ellis,
but never saw miladi, she being really ill. My only other visit was to
Versailles—of which when we meet.
“I have not yet seen Holt, but
I hope to do so this evening, and anticipate, with his help and
Woolford’s, escaping from this house before that
month expires. I am to be myself on trial as respects climate, &c., and
believe my wisest plan will be to deposit my books, &c., at the
Pantechnicon (all but a few boxes full), and hire for the nonce a lodging not
far from my clubs; in which case Hannah might sigh a long
farewell.
“I have a medal of Pius
IX. for M. M., with
sundry rosaries and so on, at your commands.
“Two more very old allies of mine are just buried, I
see—John Wilson and the Dean
of Wells (Jenkyns of Balliol).
“I am to dine to-day with Murchison, who looks doubly august with his
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must
atone for my shorn condition in purse and person.—Affectionately yours,
Sir Henry Ellis (1788-1855)
English diplomat, the illegitimate son of Robert Hobart, fourth earl of Buckinghamshire;
he published
A Journal of the Proceedings of the Late Embassy to
China (1817).
Richard Jenkyns (1782-1854)
Educated at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was elected master in 1819; he was
vice-chancellor (1824-28) and dean of Wells (1845).
John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854)
Editor of the
Quarterly Review (1825-1853); son-in-law of Walter
Scott and author of the
Life of Scott 5 vols (1838).
Mary Monica Maxwell-Scott [née Hope-Scott] (1852-1920)
Of Abbotsford, author, the daughter of James Robert Hope-Scott and granddaughter of Sir
Walter Scott; in 1874 she married the Hon. Joseph Constable-Maxwell.
Caroline Osborne [née Montagu] (d. 1867)
The daughter of Matthew Montagu, fourth Baron Rokeby; in 1843 she became the second wife
of William Godolphin Osborne, son of Francis Godolphin Osborne, first Baron
Godolphin.
Pope Pius IX. (1792-1878)
The Pope during the Victorian era, 1846-1878.
John Wilson [Christopher North] (1785-1854)
Scottish poet and Tory essayist, the chief writer for the “Noctes Ambrosianae” in
Blackwood's Magazine and professor of moral philosophy at Edinburgh
University (1820).
