Leaves from the Note-Books of Lady Dorothy NevillNevill, Dorothy, Lady
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Leaves from the Note-Books of Lady Dorothy Nevill
Nevill, Dorothy, Lady
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century; Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
Mr., the “railway king,” 293
Hunt, William, and his paintings, 193-194;
Ruskin on, 194
Hussar, the English, the creator of, _see_ Géramb
Hyde Park, carriages in, 172;
deer hunts and poaching in, 161;
dress in, 169-170;
duelling in, 173;
gallows in, 164;
once royal property, 162;
Peel’s scheme for adorning, 163;
railway station, proposed, in, 165;
riots in, 166;
smoking in, 137;
walnut avenue formerly in, 173
Hyde Park Corner, 164
Ibbetson, engraved tickets by, 200
_Illustrated London News_, 303
Inn signs in Mayfair, 145, 148
Invitation cards, author’s collection of, 10
Irish question, Bernal Osborne’s views on, 77
Ironwork railings, past and present designs in, 142
— Sussex, author’s collection of, 281
Irving, Sir Henry, letter from, with a bookplate, 257
Italian political caricatures, 8
Jacobean oak furniture, how to recognise, 223
James, Lord, of Hereford, his pleasant shooting-parties, 190
James III. (the Pretender, _q.v._), letter from, to Mr. Carte, 340
“Jean III.,” descendant of Naundorff, 117
Jerningham family, the, of Costessey Hall, French connections of, 108-109
Jersey, Countess of, and Disraeli, 68
Jewish marriage, a, witnessed by author, 262-263
_John Bull_ newspaper, 304
Johnston, Mr. Butler, 25
Jones collection of French furniture, 206
— Inigo, architect, 164, 194
Jordan, Mrs., silhouette of, 197
Josephine, Empress, 81, 83
Jubilee of 1887, souvenirs of, 10
Kensington Gardens, duel in, 173
— Palace, old prints of London Parks in, 160
Ketteringham Hall, and Mrs. Atkyns, 110-111;
her memorial erected by its present owners, 112
Kirk, military prints engraved by, 205
Kleist, Field-Marshal Baron von, and Napoleon I., 92
Knole, art treasures of, and curiosities, 223-225
Knox, Rev. Mr., of Trotton, 284
Kourakin, Prince, and the Tilsit table, 209
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