Lady Morgan’s Memoirs
Douglas Jerrold to Lady Morgan, 20 December [1850]
West Lodge, Putney,
December 20.
Dear Lady Morgan,
The devil—the devil take him—brings me your
hospitable summons for last night—here in the wilderness this morning!
Next time, pray do remember—Putney! Gibbon’s
Putney—Fairfax’s
Putney—Cromwell’s
Putney—the Marchioness of
Shrewsbury’s Putney (where she held her horse whilst Buckingham
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made her a widow)—Putney, with a hundred other
pleasant associations,—and the Putney of its humblest inhabitant, but
Yours faithfully,
Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658)
English general and statesman; fought with the parliamentary forces at the battles of
Edgehill (1642) and Marston Moor (1644); led expedition to Ireland (1649) and was named
Lord Protector (1653).
Thomas Fairfax, third lord Fairfax (1612-1671)
Commander-in-chief of the Parliamentary armies during the English Civil War; he resigned
in 1650 to be replaced by Oliver Cromwell.
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)
Author of
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
(1776-1788).
Douglas William Jerrold (1803-1857)
English playwright and miscellaneous writer; he made his reputation with the play
Black-eyed Susan (1829) and contributed to the
Athenaeum,
Blackwood's, and
Punch.
