This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ...painted, to Colonel Harcourt, who afterwards became the third Earl, and about whose marriage Walpole writes in pleasing fashion, but adds at the same time that it was not from that marriage that he was hoping to see an heir for Nuneham. There are also several references to Miss Fauquier, the daughter of William ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ...painted, to Colonel Harcourt, who afterwards became the third Earl, and about whose marriage Walpole writes in pleasing fashion, but adds at the same time that it was not from that marriage that he was hoping to see an heir for Nuneham. There are also several references to Miss Fauquier, the daughter of William Fauquier of Hanover, who in 1787 became the second wife of George, second Baron Vernon, the first son of Earl Harcourt, who died in 1823. She was also a Walpole, a distant cousin, and was frequently staying at Nuneham, and her portrait now belongs to Mr. Conway. One of Walpole's amusing character sketches occurs in a letter with At one time in the Coll. of Mr. Charles Wertheimer EMMA nte COLEBROOKE), WIFE OF CHARLES, 4th EARL OF TANKERVILLE, AND HER CHILDREN reference to Sir William and Lady Elizabeth Lee, who belonged to another family of whom Gardner painted several portraits. On the occasion of his first visit to Nuneham in 1773, he says, " The comfort was a little damped by the constant presence of Sir William Lee and Dame Elizabeth his wife, with a prim Miss, whose lips were stuffed into her nostrills. They sat bolt upright, like macaws on their perches in a menagerie, and scarce said so much I wanted to bid them call a coach! The morning and the evening was the first day, and the morning and the evening was the second day, and still they were just in their places!" There are few passages in Walpole's amusing letters in which he so cleverly paints, in a short sentence, a whole scene. It is not difficult to imagine these two still formal people. Sir William was the fourth Baronet of Hartwell, his wife, Lady Elizabeth, daughter of the first Earl Harcourt. One regret Walpole seems to have had, with regard to his visits at Nuneham, because...
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