Recollections of Lady Georgiana Peel . cific. Love to Bessy, I will write to her soon. Ever yours affectionately, «J. R. A few months later he wrote to his brotherannouncing his engagement to Lady runs as follows : Queen Street,March 21, 1835. My DEAR William, I am delighted to find we agree so wellin politics after polemics, and I am not disposed to aska qui la faute, though, no doubt, you will naturallydistribute all the blame to me, and I to you. Butthere is another event which makes me less disposedto dispute about anything. I am going to be married,and to whom ? To a widow,
Recollections of Lady Georgiana Peel . cific. Love to Bessy, I will write to her soon. Ever yours affectionately, «J. R. A few months later he wrote to his brotherannouncing his engagement to Lady runs as follows : Queen Street,March 21, 1835. My DEAR William, I am delighted to find we agree so wellin politics after polemics, and I am not disposed to aska qui la faute, though, no doubt, you will naturallydistribute all the blame to me, and I to you. Butthere is another event which makes me less disposedto dispute about anything. I am going to be married,and to whom ? To a widow, with four you will think does not sound well, but she is acharming person, full of good qualities and was married young and is now about eight andtwenty. But I have not told you her name, it is LadyRibblesdale, the sister of Mr. Lister, who marriedTheresa Villiers, so now you know all about it, andthe remainder shall be told another day. Give mylove to Bessie and tell her I hope she will write towish me LADY GEORGIANA PEEL 15 Lady William—who was Bessie—wrote her con-gratulations, beginning in this wise : My dear Johnnykins, * My mother who knows everything,announced to me your marriage three months agofrom Berlin. Perhaps you did not think of it yourselfat that time, but she positively did and named theLady! His father, the Duke of Bedford, when writing toWilliam says : I conclude John has informed you of his mar-riage, she is very highly spoken of, and, on the whole,it is a good thing for him, though they wont havemuch to make the pot boil, but John is a man of fewwants, and I hear the Lady is the same. They sayshe is an amiable and sensible woman, and I think heis now of a time of life to need a little domesticcomfort and repose. This all sounds rather cold, as is the Russellmanner. I know neither my grandfather nor unclewas so in reality; my father was particularly warm-hearted, though his very cold and distant manner, andutter discardin
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