Miss Eden's Letters

MY OWN DEAREST PAM, I hear to-day that you too are bereaved of what was most dear to you;[549] and it has roused me to write, for if any one has a right to feel for and with you...

MY DEAR MR. GREVILLE, I give it up; I succumb; I see clearly I was all wrong; generally am, quite mistaken, very sorry, very stupid, etc. But you and every friend I have will do...

THERE is a Lady Henry Gordon[443] here, on her way home with two of the loveliest children I ever beheld. One of them puts me in mind of her aunt, poor Lady M. Seymour,[444] but...

MY DEAREST THERESA, I would take a larger sheet of paper, but it does so happen that ever since we have nominally had stationery for nothing, I have never been able to find anyt...

HUSH, hush, Emmy, the King _is_ dead,[124] and we have entered a new reign, yes, yes, and George IV. _has_ been proclaimed, and I _have_ wondered what he’ll do with his wife, an...

MY DEAR MISS VILLIERS, What a shame it is that I should have been so long writing to you, particularly after Mrs. Villiers had made the discovery that my letters amused her. My...

Sailed at two, Saturday; landed at passage within the Cove of Cork last night at six. All sick, but the children so good and patient. I was quite proud of my brood, even the Bab...

I HAVE really escaped with my life--_I ain’t dead yet_, but such a big monster of a girl![423]--a regular Megalonia of a female, that if you happened to find a loose joint of he...

We have been very much surprised by a letter from Miss Milbanke[7] to Mary[8] informing her she was engaged to marry Lord Byron, a “person of whose character she has had the bes...

MY DEAREST THERESA, I can write to no one in all the nervous flurry of these first meetings but yourself, my poor afflicted friend. Amongst all the happiness of others your hard...

MY DEAREST SISTER, I was very sorry to hear of the unfortunate state in which you have been, and in which Sarah [Lady Sarah Robinson] is, as I have a sufficient recollection of...

Stayed at Grosvenor Place on our way home to dinner, and saw Mary [Drummond] with the three children dressed to go to the Duke of Atholl’s for twelfth cake. Came home at 9, I su...

MY DEAREST THERESA, I _did_ write the day I had your first letter. To be sure you were not bound to know it, for I put my letter by so carefully, that at post time it was entire...

MY DEAREST THERESA, How attentive we become! frightened to death at the idea of our near meeting, _unwritten_ to. I had your Genoa letter three days ago in the leisure of Hertin...