The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart
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John Gibson Lockhart to Charlotte Lockhart Hope, 9 October 1847
“Milton Lockhart, Lanark, October 9, 1847.
“Dearest Charlotte,—I
had this morning your note of the 5th, and therefore lose no time in saying
here I am, safe and pretty well, though I can’t tell what my ulterior
(Fifeish) movements are to be until I have seen William, who is to be here to dinner to-day, but perhaps not in
post-time.
“I spent a couple of very pleasant days at Ap-![]()
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thorpe, though, the Duke of
Cambridge being of the party, it was rather noisy, but all
exceeding good-humour and some fun. Also at Brigham I had very good
entertainment, and was not a little surprised with the scale and splendour of
the curious place, which has, among other things, a most gorgeous chapel, all
over Popery and heraldry; and H. B. carried me after our
wine to vespers, where he has very fair chaunting from the villagers, and his
brother William plays the organ. I had but a rough
day’s work yesterday; mail-coach overturned near Lesmahago, but I was
outside luckily, and Paul1 cleared the hedge and
suffered little from a plunge knee-deep into a ploughed field. None of my letters having arrived from the South, William was from home, and the servants
expected nobody, but all very speedily comfortable.—Ever yours
affectionately,
John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854)
Editor of the
Quarterly Review (1825-1853); son-in-law of Walter
Scott and author of the
Life of Scott 5 vols (1838).
William Lockhart (1787-1856)
Of Germiston and Milton-Lockhart, the elder, half-brother of John Gibson Lockhart; he was
Conservative MP for Lanarkshire (1841-56).
