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A Century of Family Letters 



Wedgwood, Mrs John (Louisa Jane 

 Allen), "Jenny": account of, i. 4, 

 74, 83, 84; her fortitude, i. 102; her 

 youthful appearance, i. 158; her 

 death, i. 269, 270 



Letter to Josiah Wedgwood, of 

 Maer, i. 99 



Wedgwood, Mrs Josiah, of Maer (Eliza- 

 beth Allen), "Bessy": account 

 of, i. 2, 6, 7; acquitted of jealousy 

 with respect to Tom Wedgwood, i. 

 17, 19; in request at a ball, i. 76; 

 travelling by mail, i. 85, 86; visit to 

 the Surtees, i. 85; advice to Jessie 

 Allen about Sismondi, i. 126, 127; 

 her youthful appearance, i. 142; 

 health beginning to fail, i. 155; at 

 Geneva, i. 166; appreciation by 

 Mackintosh, i. 208 ; on the prospects 

 of her family, i. 214, 215; criticism 

 of her daughters, i. 216; illness, i. 

 217; pleasure at her husband's 

 election, i. 254; accident to, i. 255; 

 her sad state of health, ii. 30, 83, 

 98, 99; her death, ii. 101; her char- 

 acter, ii. 101-103 



Letters to Emma Allen, i. 8, 43, 

 56, 66, 89, 93, 209, 220, 223, 237; 

 letters to Fanny Allen, i. 10, 22, 80, 

 83, 91, 117, 142, 161, 163, 167; 

 letters to her daughter Elizabeth, 

 i. 65, 75, 154; ii. 44; letter to her 

 daughter Emma, ii. 30; letter to her 

 daughters Fanny and Emma, i. 

 238 ; letters to her husband, i. 16, 18, 

 24, 120, 184, 185; ii. 43; letters to 

 Madame Sismondi (Jessie Allen), i. 

 36, 63, 126, 136, 137, 142, 147, 158, 

 179, 207, 213, 216, 224, 230, 231; 

 letter to her sisters, i. 101 



Wedgwood, Mrs Josiah, of Leith Hill 

 Place (Caroline Darwin), i. 139; 

 characteristics, i. 140, 141; her 

 infant school, i. 163, 164; goes to 

 Geneva, i. 200; her engagement, i. 

 278, 279; the death of her eldest 

 child, ii. 27, 28; her death, ii. 281 



L ttf-r to Elizabeth Wedg AGO 1, 

 i. 271; letter to Fanny and Emma 

 W. d^vood, i. 201 



Wedgwood, Sarah Elizabeth (1778- 

 1856), "Sarah," i. 42; proposal 



from Henry Swinney, i. 84, 85; re- 

 fuses Henry Swinney, i. 90; on her 

 friendships, i. 106-108; her gener- 

 osity, i. Ill, 189; builds on Maer 

 Heath, i. 164; leaves Camp Hill for 

 Pet leys, ii. 105; description of, in 

 old age, ii. 105; her death and 

 funeral, ii. 161, 162 



Letters to Jessie Allen, i. 27, 105 



Wedgwood, Sarah Elizabeth (1795- 

 1857), "Sally" or " Eliza," i. 

 28 n., 64, 138, 224, 278 



Wedgwood, Sophy, birth of, ii. 63 



Wedgwood, Tom (1771-1805): account 

 of, i. 11; voyage to West Indies, i. 

 12, 14; his death, i. 26; Mrs Josiah 

 Wedgwood on, i. 26; friendship 

 with J. Leslie, i. 136 n. ; his letters to 

 Josiah Wedgwood, ii. 109 



Wedgwood, Colonel Thomas Josiah 

 (1797-1862), "Tom," at Waterloo, 

 i. 66, 68-73 



Letter to his father, i. 73; letteis 

 to his mother, i. 68, 71 



Wedgwoods, the Josiah, i. 7, 8; in 

 Paris, i. 113; soiree in Paris, i. 119; 

 go to Geneva, i. 121 ; return to Maer, 

 i. 121 ; lea veEtruria for Maer, i. 134; 

 at Scarborough, i. 149-151; tour 

 abroad, i. 166; in Rome, i. 170-177; 

 return to England, i. 177 



Wellesley, Marquis, i. 35 n. 



Wellington, Duke of : praise of Guards 

 by the i. 71, 72; his Ministry over- 

 thrown, i. 231 n., 232; anecdotes 

 about the, ii. 311, 312 



Whately, Thomas, ii. 93 n. 



Women, Tripos at Cambridge opened 

 to, ii. 245 



Wordsworth, William : his description 

 of Tom Wedgwood, i. 11; Sarah 

 Wedgwood on his poetry, i. 109; 

 meeting with Jeffrey, i. 235, 236 



Working Men's College, ii. 206; walk- 

 ing parties, ii. 213 



Wiirtemberg, the Grand-Duchess of: 

 the Sismondis dine with her, ii. 65; 

 Madame Sismondi' s feeling for, ii. 

 89 



York Street, sale of show-rooms in, i. 

 214 n. 



