Lady Morgan’s Memoirs
Lady Morgan to Lord Anglesea, 24 February 1829
Kildare Street, Dublin,
February 24, 1829.
My Lord,
While your Lordship is still occupied in receiving
testimonials of national gratitude and regrets, it is almost presumptuous in an
individual to make claims upon time so importantly devoted; still I cannot
resist the desire of soliciting your notice to the little sketch of vice-regal popularity in Ireland that accompanied this for
I am neither of a sex nor a country
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to permit discretion
to wait on feeling; and I should be sorry to be the last (however least) of the
many whose offerings of respect and admiration are about to follow the ex-Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland in the privacy of domestic life. It is a proud, and I may
say rare privilege, to be so followed. How few of your Lordship’s
predecessors have won it, and how dearly they have purchased it, forms the
subject of pages which had probably never been written had this unfortunate
country never benefitted by your government.
I have the honour to be, with deep sentiments of
respect,
Your Lordship’s
Obliged and obedient servant,