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. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...and came of a staunch Liberal family, he was acceptable to the whole of Neapolitan society. Lord Holland was a relative of Lady Walpole, and her trustee--Mr. Spencer Walpole also being a member of the trust. Lady Holland was through life a great friend of my wife's, and we still possess many letters of hers ...
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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. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...and came of a staunch Liberal family, he was acceptable to the whole of Neapolitan society. Lord Holland was a relative of Lady Walpole, and her trustee--Mr. Spencer Walpole also being a member of the trust. Lady Holland was through life a great friend of my wife's, and we still possess many letters of hers giving the most interesting social and political news. I have many reasons for gratitude to Lord Holland up to the time when I left England in 1859, the year he died. He had three houses xvi LORD PALMERSTON'S DEATH 195 besides the one already mentioned: Holland House in London, St. Anne's Hill, Chertsey, and a house in Paris, which they visited occasionally. All four were made pleasant to the guests admitted to them, and, wherever Lord and Lady Holland lived, there was always to be found the cream of social success. One of their great friends was a gentleman named Ridgway, an old man with curly hair, who was related, I believe, to the publishing firm. He was very rich, giving constant dinners, and was always making little presents to ladies. Two of Lord Holland's special intimates were M. Masson and the Comte de Pontois, who had been French Ambassador at Constantinople. Like many of their friends, M. Pontois was an Orleanist, while M. Masson was also a politician of great moderation. In a letter written to my wife by Lady Holland, she says: --I will transgress your orders and answer your kind line, for this reason, that as you happen to mention M. Masson and Count Pontois, I feel an itching to tell you that the former has just been named Prefet du Departement du Nord, and the other has been made happy by the restitution of that part of his pension of retired Ambassador of which he had been most iniquitously deprived. Shortly after Lord...
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