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CHAPTER III 



18131814 



John Allen's marriage Jessie, Emma, and Fanny Allen at Dulwich 



-The Mackintoshes in Great George Street An escapade of 



the Duke of Brunswick London parties and Madame de Stae'l. 



1812 John Hensleigh Allen, of Cresselly, married Ger- 

 trude, daughter of Lord Robert Seymour. His three sisters 

 had lived with him since his father's death in 1 803, and these 

 nine years were often looked back on as a time of peculiar 

 happiness to all. Their home at Cresselly now came to an 

 end, and they went first to the Josiah Wedgwoods and there 

 stayed eight months. This long visit laid the foundation 

 of the lifelong friendship between the aunts and their nieces. 

 The following letters were written whilst they were in or 

 near London, after the visit to Staffordshire was over. 

 Sir James and Lady Mackintosh had returned from India 

 and were living in Great George Street, Westminster, and 

 Baugh Allen was Master of Dulwich College. To be near 

 him the Allen sisters had taken lodgings at Dulwich, but 

 were often at Great George Street. In the following letter 

 ' little Fan ' ' is Fanny Mackintosh, their niece, aged about 

 thirteen, and Kitty their sister Lady Mackintosh. 



Emma Alien to her sister Mrs Josiah Wedgwood. 



DULWICH, July 2nd [1813]. 



. . . The next day, Saturday, which you know was fixed 

 for my going down here, Kitty was just enough to provoke 

 a saint, and made me feel as if I was enchanted in her 

 house. At breakfast I talked of my going, and told her I 

 wished to go by the 4 o'clock coach; to this she agreed 

 and made me understand she would bid John take places 

 at that time, and our dinner was ordered before three. 



