In the footsteps of Borrow & Fitzgerald . have been, interfering and somewhatof a busybody in later life she certainly was,but many remember her as a kind and lovingwoman, idolized by her father and almostworshipped by the children she taught in theSunday-school. She had some pretensionsto writing of a religious nature. Many versesfrom her pen appeared in Fulchers SudburyPocket-Book, and in 1831 she published abook of Bible history entitled Bible Lettersfor Children. She was never a Quaker atheart, and often persuaded her father toabandon it for the Anglican Church. CharlesLamb, however, remem
In the footsteps of Borrow & Fitzgerald . have been, interfering and somewhatof a busybody in later life she certainly was,but many remember her as a kind and lovingwoman, idolized by her father and almostworshipped by the children she taught in theSunday-school. She had some pretensionsto writing of a religious nature. Many versesfrom her pen appeared in Fulchers SudburyPocket-Book, and in 1831 she published abook of Bible history entitled Bible Lettersfor Children. She was never a Quaker atheart, and often persuaded her father toabandon it for the Anglican Church. CharlesLamb, however, remembers her in Quakerlyattire, and when, with her father, she visitedCharles and Mary Lamb at Colebrook Cot-tage, Islington, the great essayist contributedto her album some lines to the Little Booksurnamed of White, which ended :— Whitest thoughts in whitest dress,Candid meanings best expressMind of quiet Quakeress. Lucy Barton, as her father points out, was comparatively a chit when she aposta-tized ; and when, after Charles Lambs death,. HKKWRI) BARTON. f-g OF BORROW AND FITZGERALD 33 she called on Mary Lamb, she wore a dressof blue muslin, un-Quakerly certainly, andperhaps even fashionable, for Mary Lambreceived her with mild irony, and with asimulated surprise exclaimed reproachfully, Bernard Bartons daughter ! Many delightful letters were exchangedbetween Charles Lamb and Bernard are well known, but Bartons lettershave never been read as they of them are delightful epistles. Ihave no copy of Bartons letters to Lamb,but here is quite a characteristic letter tothe Rev. Charles B. Taylor, a friend ofboth Bernard Barton and Charles Lamb,who had sent the former a satirical letterfor a cook, and Barton replies :— I am requested to say that we are quiteunable to recommend thee a cook of anykind ; as to Quaker cooks, they are so scarcethat we Quaker folk are compelled to callin the aid of the daughters of the land, todress our own viands, or cook them ou
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