[3] Lady Rosebery died in 1890, and Lord Rosebery became Prime Minister in 1894. [4] Her husband was William Lamb, afterwards Lord Melbourne. He was Prime Minister in 1834 and 1836-41. [5] See p. 101. [6] Lord Melbourne died 24th November 1848. [7] See p. 40. [8] The correspondence is printed in C. Kegan Paul’s _Life of William Godwin_. [9] She told Lady Morgan she loved him chiefly because he stood by her when no one else did. [10] Lady Melton in _Dr. Lindsay_; Lady Clara in _Lionel Hastings_; Lady Bellenden in _Greville_. [11] 2nd August 1826. [12] Disraeli 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_. [13] Printed in A. H. Markham’s _Northward Ho!_, 1879. [14] He was under eight years old, and Miranda herself was barely nine. [15] But his fatherly affection leads him to say, in regard to writing to him, “Write bad rather than not write at all.” [16] Fuller died in 1841. His wife survived him until 23rd September 1869. [17] He did not succeed to the Baronetcy until 1830. [18] From lines by Mrs. Abdy, appended to an engraving of Lawrence’s portrait of Lady Peel. [19] Louis-Philippe and Queen Amélie. [20] In 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.” [21] The Mintos belonged to the Scottish Presbyterian Church. [22] Afterwards Lord Amberley. [23] Lady Georgiana Peel. [24] Known to later generations as Willis’s Rooms. [25] In 1814. [26] The poem appears in _Weeds and Wildflowers_, by E. G. L. B., a volume privately printed at Paris in 1826. [27] 1881. [28] In 1860. [29] It is now at Broadlands. Although the background is unfinished it is a fine and characteristic piece of work. [30] 3rd September 1847. [31] Now the Naval and Military Club. [32] 21st January 1868. [33] 1868. [34] 29th July 1837. [35] Another time she writes of Disraeli as “our political pet.” [36] Now 29 Park Lane. [37] Afterwards Emperor Napoleon III. [38] An allusion to the passing by the Commons of the Jews’ Oaths of Abjuration Bill on 3rd July. [39] Of the Rothschilds. [40] An allusion to the Whitebait Dinner at Greenwich. [41] Anthony de Rothschild had been created a Baronet at the New Year. [42] Wife of Baron James de Rothschild, founder of the Rothschild firm in Paris. [43] Worth Park, Sussex, the seat of Mrs. Montefiore, Lady de Rothschild’s mother. [44] The well-known business house of Messrs. Rothschild in the City of London. [45] The late Lord Rothschild. [46] In 1867. [47] Cf. Lord Ronald Gower, _Reminiscences_. [48] 24th January 1873. [49] 9th January 1873. [50] Headmaster of Eton.