[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.
[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.
[24] Known to later generations as Willis’s Rooms.
[26] The poem appears in _Weeds and Wildflowers_, by E. G. L. B., a volume privately printed at Paris in 1826.
[29] It is now at Broadlands. Although the background is unfinished it is a fine and characteristic piece of work.
[35] Another time she writes of Disraeli as “our political pet.”
[38] An allusion to the passing by the Commons of the Jews’ Oaths of Abjuration Bill on 3rd July.
[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.
[47] Cf. Lord Ronald Gower, _Reminiscences_.
[54] A picture showing an unusual side of the stern disciplinarian. He was sixty-eight.
[55] Mr. Gladstone was Vice-President of the Board of Trade and Master of the Mint.
[57] The Right Hon. Thomas Grenville (1755-1846), politician and book collector. His bequest of books to the British Museum forms the Grenville Library.