Lady Morgan’s Memoirs
Countess of Charleville to Lady Morgan, 8 March 1847
March 8, 1847.
I am very very sorry to be deprived so long of any
enjoyment from your society, which I always cared for and valued when there
seemed to be more of the same stamp current than in our latter days! Is it that
as age advances we think complacently on those scenes we passed under the blaze
of a meridian day with capabilities now blunted, and which neither can impart
or receive pleasure with the same gusto as heretofore? Be that as it may, my
dear Lady Morgan, I shall always rejoice in
seeing you again, and be most anxious for the recovered health of Mr. and Mrs.
Jones.
Yours affectionately,
Edward Inwood-Jones (1814 c.-1856)
The son of Edward Jones; he was educated at Clare Hall, Cambridge and was rector of Shire
Newton near Chepstow. He was the second husband of Sydney Clarke, daughter of Olivia
Owenson Clarke.
Sydney Jane Inwood-Jones [née Clarke] (d. 1882)
The daughter of Sir Arthur Clarke of Dublin and niece of Lady Morgan; in 1834 she married
first, Thomas French Laurence (d. 1837), and secondly, in 1840, Edward Newton Jones, rector
of Shire Norton (d. 1856).
