The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart
Chapter 22: 1850-53
John Gibson Lockhart to James Hope-Scott, 24 March 1852
“March 24, 1852.
“Dear Hope,—Some
years ago I rashly put into ![]()
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the Quarterly Review (article on Curzon’s
book) a story which Croker had
just told at table here about Madame de
Sévigné’s having written that St. Vincent de Paul was an agreeable man, but
trichait aux cartes.
“Lately, that odious —— has re-quoted
this from the Quarterly
Review, and thereupon an anonymous Catholic writes very courteously for a reference to the page in
Madame de Sévigné.
“I applied yesterday to Croker, who I thought might have a well-indexed copy of
Sévigné. Here is his
reply. I am a good deal vexed, but if you could give me the means, I should be
anxious to apologise as to St. Vincent de
Paul, and state the real story (valeat quantum) in an exact manner. If you or Badeley can’t help me I
despair.—Contritely meanwhile,
Edward Lowth Badeley (1803 c.-1868)
Educated at Brasenose College, Oxford and the Inner Temple, he was an ecclesiastical
lawyer and friend of James Hope-Scott; he converted to Catholicism in 1852. In 1868
Cardinal Newman dedicated a book of poems to him.
John Wilson Croker (1780-1857)
Secretary of the Admiralty (1810) and writer for the
Quarterly
Review; he edited an elaborate edition of Boswell's
Life of
Johnson (1831).
Saint Vincent De Paul (1581-1660)
French priest who devoted himself to serving the poor and founded the Vincentian
order.
James Robert Hope-Scott (1812-1873)
The son of General Hon. Sir Alexander Hope; in 1847 he married Charlotte Harriet Jane
Lockhart, daughter of the editor of the
Quarterly Review. He was a
barrister and Queen's Counsel.
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).
Marie de Sévigné (1626-1696)
French woman of letters; the manner of her correspondence was imitated throughout the
eighteenth century.
The Quarterly Review. (1809-1967). Published by John Murray, the
Quarterly was instigated by Walter
Scott as a Tory rival to the
Edinburgh Review. It was edited by
William Gifford to 1824, and by John Gibson Lockhart from 1826 to 1853.
