Lady Morgan’s Memoirs
Journal for January 1859
January 1.—This day my Odd Volume, probably
my last, made its appearance in the world, l’enfant de ma vieillesse. I lingered over the
idea of writing a preface. Starting up one morning, I called to my maid to give
me pen and ink, and dashed it off; and so it went
uncorrected, and is not the worst morsel I have written. This esquisse has a success more universal and
cheerful than ever attended any of my works.