xxii List of Illustrations 



J. C. de Sismondi. From a portrait by Madame A. Munier-Romilly 

 given to the Musee Rath at Geneva by Hensleigh Wedgwood 



to face p. 128 



Charles and Catherine Darwin, 1816. From a coloured chalk draw- 

 ing by Sharpies in possession of Mrs Vaughan Williams of Leith 

 Hill Place to face p. 138 



Madame de Sismondi, aged 45. From a miniature by Leakey in 

 possession of Mrs R. B. Litchfield. Mrs J. Wedgwood writes 

 of this picture, painted for her: "It is not your merry look 

 when you chuse to make Sismondi stare, but it is your resigned 

 look, when you are entertaining company and are not much 

 entertained yourself ' to face p. 144 



