Lady Morgan’s Memoirs
Lord Morpeth to Lady Morgan, 5 April 1836
Nuneham,
April 5th,
1836.
My dear Lady Morgan,
How am I to thank you enough for your most
amiable letter, which has just come to divert the not-unoccupied
repose of my holidays?
“In vain to deserts my retreat is made, The tithes attend me to the
silent shade.” |
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And so far, not inappropriately, as I am the guest of the
Archbishop of York, and
within seven miles of Oxford. But then there is another awful
phantom, styled poor laws, “Whose gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flower, and darkens every green.”
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I am showing symptoms of bolting from the stout turnpike,
where I ought to travel into pleasant pas-![]()
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tures. I am convinced that Dublin has been very gay, though you
will not allow it. I am very sorry to miss the occasion of renewing
my acquaintance with Mrs.
Laurence.
I cannot but be glad that Sir Charles has worked so hard for
the lobster and anchovy sauces; I wish that his country might
continue to appropriate some still more persevering labour from
him. I shall feel the grey towers of Malahide a great and real
loss. But we will have a look and luncheon there some morning.
Your most loyal servant,
Anne Blacker [née Morgan] (d. 1850)
The daughter of Thomas Charles Morgan by his first marriage; in 1826 she married Major
St. John Blacker of the Madras Cavalry, and in 1845 the Hon. George Augustus Brown, son of
James, Lord Kilmaine.
Edward Venables-Vernon Harcourt, archbishop of York (1757-1847)
The son of George Venables-Vernon, first Baron Vernon, educated at Westminster and
All-Souls College, Oxford; he was prebendary of Gloucester (1785-91), bishop of Carlisle
(1791-1807), and archbishop of York (1807-47).
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.
