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Wellesley (who took the name of Tylney Long Wellesley), son of 
the Earl of Maryborough, and nephew of the great Duke of Wellington. 
An interesting account of the wedding at St. James’s, Piccadilly, is given 
from a contemporary newspaper :—‘‘ The bride’s dress exceeded in 
costliness and beauty the celebrated dress worn by Lady Morpeth at 
the time of her marriage, which was exhibited for a fortnight at least by 
her mother, the late Duchess of Devonshire. The dress of the present 
bride consisted of a robe of real Brussels point lace, the device a simple 
sprig; it was placed over white satin. Her head was ornamented with 
a cottage bonnet of the same material, being Brussels lace with two 
ostrich feathers. She likewise wore a deep lace veil and a white satin 
pelisse trimmed with swansdown. The dress cost seven hundred guineas, 
the bonnet one hundred and fifty, and the veil two hundred, and she 
wore a necklace which cost £25,000.” The unhappy married life of the 
lady is next lightly touched on, with the loss of her enormous fortune by 
her husband’s extravagance, the sale of the materials of Wanstead House, 
which had cost £360,000 to erect, for £10,000 to a Norwich builder, the 
retirement of Mrs. Long Wellesley to Draycot with her 6-year-old child 
Victoria (so named, by the way, not after the Queen, for she was a year 
older than Her Majesty, but on account of her father’s “ victory ’’ in an 
election contest), and the death and funeral of the former with much 
pomp—the Church hung in black, thirty-two tenants in black cloaks, &c., 
at Draycot. 
A number of letters of no special interest from the Duke of Wellington, 
who became guardian of the children, follow; and then the book settles 
down to the life of Miss Long Wellesley from her childhood under the 
care of her aunts, the Misses Tylney Long. Her father’s accession to 
‘the title of Earl of Mornington made her Lady Victoria Pole Tylney 
Long Wellesley in 1845. Her brother, the fifth and last Lord Mornington, 
dying in 1863, left Draycot and all his mother’s property away from her 
to his father’s first cousin, Lord Cowley, and she never visited the place 
again. Of her quiet, wholly uneventful life, spent in deeds of charity 
and unfailing support of all good works, more especially at Eastbourne, 
where she built and endowed the fine Church of All Souls, the remainder 
of the book treats. She never married, died aged 78, and was buried at 
Draycot Cerne. 
illage Notes and some other Papers, by Pamela 
Tennant, with illustrations from original photographs. London: William 
Heinemann, 1900, cr. 8vo, cloth, 6s., pp. xiv. and 208. 
The authoress, Mrs. Tennant, now of Stockton, has collected in this 
book a number of short essays on village and country life, some of which 
have already appeared in The Outlook. Some of them are concerned 
with Scotland, but the majority—though but few names are mentioned 
—are clearly inspired by the people and the country of the Wylye Valley. 
_ Mrs. Tennant writes with great sympathy, and what is rarer, with a true 
knowledge, of the South Wilts country folk and their tongue. In her 
F pages they talk as they really do to those they know—they are not 
