Lady Morgan’s Memoirs
Lord Morpeth to Lady Morgan, 8 May 1838
Grosvenor Place,
May 8th, 1837.
My dear Lady Morgan,
I thought the enclosed note came very à propos after my agreeable visit to
you yesterday. I hope the contents will be acceptable to you, as I am sure they
are creditable to Lord Melbourne for
offering to your merits, literary and patriotic, the highest scale of
acknowledgement which our material times permit. I ought to state that
Lord Mulgrave has been a joint
solicitor to Lord Melbourne, with myself.
Very sincerely yours,
William Lamb, second viscount Melbourne (1779-1848)
English statesman, the son of Lady Melbourne (possibly by the third earl of Egremont) and
husband of Lady Caroline Lamb; he was a Whig MP, prime minister (1834-41), and counsellor
to Queen Victoria.
Constantine Henry Phipps, first marquess of Normanby (1797-1863)
The son of Henry Phipps, first earl of Mulgrave; educated at Harrow and Trinity College,
Cambridge, he was a Whig MP, governor of Jamaica (1832-34), lord privy seal (1834),
lord-lieutenant of Ireland (1835), and ambassador at Paris (1846-52).
