Lady Morgan’s Memoirs
Sydney Owenson to Thomas Charles Morgan, 26 December 1811
December, 26, 1811.
Lady Cahir has just sent me a magnificent
edition of the Pacata
Hibernica, to be returned this evening, by Miss Butler, who drinks tea with me, and I am
extracting till I am black in the face, and I have scarce a moment to say how
do you do? I had made
up my mind before Lady Abercorn’s letter, as you must have
known by three letters you had previously received; but I thought it would
please her to give her a little credit, &c., &c. I have written a very
civil little billet to Mrs. Morgan, merely inclosing the
address for Skinner, as it will save six days’
delay. Are you angry? God bless you, which is all I have time to say.
Ever your own,
Emily Butler, countess of Glengall [née Jeffreyes] (d. 1836)
The daughter of James St John Jeffreyes of Blarney Castle; in 1793 she married Richard
Butler (1775-1819) eleventh baron Caher and first earl of Glengall. She was the original of
Lady Singleton in Lady Morgan's novel
O'Donnel.
Anne Jane Hamilton, marchioness of Abercorn [née Gore] (1763-1827)
Daughter of the earl of Arran; in 1783 she married Henry Hatton (d. 1793), in 1800 John
James Hamilton, first marquess of Hamilton. She entertained literary figures at her villa
at Stanmore, among them Lady Morgan.
Lady Jane Manners- Sutton [née Butler] (1779-1846)
The daughter of James Butler, ninth Baron Cahir; in 1815 she married Thomas Manners
Sutton at Baron's Court, the residence of the Marquis of Abercorn in County Tyrone.