The life and letters of Laurence Sterne . d and their two children—Remains inEngland after Drapers return—Meets Sterne in December 1766at the Jamess—Commodore William James and Mrs. James—Sterne eulogises them in a letter to his daughter—Gossip connectsthe names of Mrs. Draper and Sterne—Their conduct indiscreetbut innocent—Sternes letter to Daniel Draper—Sternes lettersto Mrs. Draper—Mrs. Draper sails for India. NOT Swift so loved his Stella, Scarron hisMaintenon, or Waller his Sacharissa, as I willlove, and sing thee, my wife elect ! All thesenames, eminent as they were, shall give placeto t
The life and letters of Laurence Sterne . d and their two children—Remains inEngland after Drapers return—Meets Sterne in December 1766at the Jamess—Commodore William James and Mrs. James—Sterne eulogises them in a letter to his daughter—Gossip connectsthe names of Mrs. Draper and Sterne—Their conduct indiscreetbut innocent—Sternes letter to Daniel Draper—Sternes lettersto Mrs. Draper—Mrs. Draper sails for India. NOT Swift so loved his Stella, Scarron hisMaintenon, or Waller his Sacharissa, as I willlove, and sing thee, my wife elect ! All thesenames, eminent as they were, shall give placeto thine, Eliza. Thus Sterne in a letter to Mrs. ElizabethDraper, written in the early part of the year1767 ; and though, in spite of this fervent pro-testation, not Stella, nor Maintenon, nor Sacha-rissa, has paled before Eliza, yet most assuredlyEliza has come to be ranked with them amongthe heroines of romance. Some may think thattoo much attention has been given to the in-timacy between this lady and Sterne—and it 122. TOBIAS SMOLLETT. (Sec p. SO.)from an engraving Int IInlij 123 STERNE AND ELIZA 125 may be that this is so ; but no biographer ofthe humorist can afford to pass over the the antecedents of Mrs. Draper nothingapparently was generally known to writers onthe subject until 1897, when Mr. Thomas Sec-combe, in the article in the Dictionary ofNational Biography on William Sclater, Rectorof Pitminster, showed that her descent could betraced from Williams father, Anthony. An-thony Sclater, born in 1520, was appointed in1570 Rector of Leighton Buzzard, which beneficehe held until his death in 1620, when he wassucceeded in this clerical office by a youngerson, Christopher. Christophers son Williamserved in the Civil Wars as a Cornet of Horseand subsequently entered the Church. He wasappointed in 1666 to the living of St. Jamess,Clerkenwell, and later became Rector of died in 1690, having outlived by five yearshis son Francis. Francis
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