Lady Morgan’s Memoirs
Lord Anglesea to Lady Morgan, 12 September 1831
Black Rock,
September, 12, 1831.
My dear Lady Morgan,
I ought to have thanked you sooner for the Review you
sent me, and for calling my attention to the well-written article in it by
Sir Charles Morgan. I had already
seen extracts from it, with which, to be honest, I was
better pleased than with the whole, for it happens that
I go the full length with him in what I had before met with, whereas, in part
of that which was new to me, I differ. I am sorry—you, probably,
glad—that I have not time to explain myself.
Lady Anglesea showed me your note
regarding an Italian opera, in Dublin, during October and November. If the
thing is likely to take, I shall be delighted to promote it, and all my family
will join. I think every encouragement should be given to those who ![]()
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will render Dublin gay. We want a little dégourdissement, because too much
entangled in sombre politics. We may be vastly good patriots, and yet be always
lively and good humoured; but before Messrs. Calcraft and de Begnis
embark in this undertaking, they should well calculate their means.
Believe, me,
Dear Lady Morgan,
Very faithfully yours,
Giuseppe de Begnis (1793-1849)
Italian bass who made his English debut in London at the King’s Theatre in 1821.
John William Cole (d. 1870)
Adopting the stage name of Calcraft, he was manager of the Theatre Royal in Dublin
(1830-51) and biographer and secretary of Charles Kean.
Sir Thomas Charles Morgan (1780-1843)
English physician and philosophical essayist who married the novelist Sydney Owenson in
1812; he was the author of
Sketches of the Philosophy of Morals
(1822). He corresponded with Cyrus Redding.
Lady Eleanora Paget [née Campbell] (1799 c.-1828)
The daughter of John Campbell of Shawfield and Islay; in 1819 she married Sir Henry
Paget, afterwards second marquess of Anglesey.
Henry William Paget, first marquess of Anglesey (1768-1854)
Originally Bayly, educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford; he was MP
(1790-1810), commander of cavalry under Sir John Moore, lost a leg at Waterloo, and raised
to the peerage 1815; he was lord-lieutenant of Ireland (1828-29, 1830-33).
