MEMOIE 



MISS HENRIETTA WILSON. 



The good and gifted writer of the following pages was 

 the daughter of Andrew Wilson, Esq., Main House. In 

 early life she lost her mother, and for some years found 

 a home with her grandmother in Queen Street, Edin- 

 burgh, under the same roof with her father's celebrated 

 brother, Professor John WUson. But there was another 

 uncle, at w^hose pleasant abode in the then secluded 

 suburb of ]\Iorningside she was a frequent visitor, and in 

 whose society from the first she greatly deKghted. His 

 garden was so fragrant and so bright with blossom, 

 there were about the place so many tame and liappy 

 creatures, and his own ways were so gentle and so 

 loving, that it was no wonder Woodville became to 

 her a little paradise, and its kind owner dear beyond 



