From a crayon drawing by J. R. Swinton (1850); from a picture owned by Elizabeth B. Bliss. A. W. Kinglake (“Eothen”) 90 From a photograph. Samuel Rogers 98 From the drawing by G. Richmond (1848); photograph copyright by Walker & Cockerell, London. Lady Byron 106 From the portrait in the possession of Sir J. Tollemache Sinclair, Bart. George Hudson, the “Railway King” 114 From the engraving after F. Grant. Lord Palmerston 130 From the portrait by Partridge; photograph copyright by Walker & Cockerell, London. Lady Palmerston 136 From a painting, by permission of Sir Francis Gore. Mrs. Dawson Damer 154 From the miniature by Isabey, by permission of Lady Constance Leslie. Mrs. Fitzherbert 160 From the pastel by J. Russell. Richard Monckton Miles (Lord Houghton) 170 From a drawing by Cousins, by permission of the Hon. Mrs. Arthur Henniker. Lord George Bentinck 190 From a painting by Lane, by permission of the Duke of Portland. Sir Robert Peel 194 From the mezzotint after Sir T. Lawrence, R. A. Lady Peel 198 After Sir T. Lawrence, R. A.; photograph copyright by W. Mansell & Co., London. George Bancroft 210 Probably taken at Brady’s National Gallery, New York, sometime after his return from England; from a picture owned by Elizabeth B. Bliss. Letters from England _To W. D. B. and A. B._ LIVERPOOL, October 26, 1846. MY DEAR SONS: Thank God with me that we are once more on _terra firma_. We arrived yesterday morning at ten o’clock, after a very rough voyage and after riding all night in the Channel in a tremendous gale, so bad that no pilot could reach us to bring us in on Saturday evening. A record of a sea voyage will be only interesting to you who love me, but I must give it to you that you may know what to expect if you ever undertake it; but first, I must sum it all up by saying that of all horrors, of all physical miseries, tortures, and distresses, a sea voyage is the greatest . . . The Liverpool paper this morning, after announcing our arrival says: “The _Great Western_, notwithstanding she encountered throughout a series of most severe gales, accomplished the passage in sixteen days and twelve hours.”