The life and letters of James Wolfe . tized(January 11, ) in the parish church of St. Mary, and broughtby Mrs. Wolfe herself to Spiers. Exactly a year later cameanother son, baptized by the name of Edward, a family name onboth sides of the house of Wolfe. How much later detail, copious and irrelevant, one would givefor knowledge of the first twelve years of James Wolfes life ! We ^ General George Warde (the Younger), wTitiug to the Rev. T. Streatfcild,in 1822, declared he slept constantly on the bed in which ^Volfe was , says Dr. Pollen, in his interesting little brochure on Wolfe
The life and letters of James Wolfe . tized(January 11, ) in the parish church of St. Mary, and broughtby Mrs. Wolfe herself to Spiers. Exactly a year later cameanother son, baptized by the name of Edward, a family name onboth sides of the house of Wolfe. How much later detail, copious and irrelevant, one would givefor knowledge of the first twelve years of James Wolfes life ! We ^ General George Warde (the Younger), wTitiug to the Rev. T. Streatfcild,in 1822, declared he slept constantly on the bed in which ^Volfe was , says Dr. Pollen, in his interesting little brochure on Wolfe, couldonly have descended to him as representative of INIrs. Wolfes executor, t. uncle, the great General George. As the Vicarage was the home ofthe Rev. George Lewis and his large family, it is not likely ^Irs. \V^olfefurnished it; so the bed alluded to must have formed part of the furnitureof Quebec House (Spiers), whicli we know was occupied by the Wolfes.— Videwill of Frances Ellison, once of Spiers. 2 Wolfe-Land, p. THE VICARAGE,
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