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found here for the mention of two only. 4 

 February. Sir Roderick Murchison s dinner at 

 seven. When I walked into the drawing-room Lady 

 Murchison came running up to me with both her 

 hands out, and made me sit down beside her. . . . 

 Sedgwick was there, Pentland, and Lockhart, Sir 

 Walter s son-in-law. I was delighted to meet him. 

 We had a capital evening. Lockhart was most 

 amusing and interesting. He told a strange story of 

 Lord Brougham, who, it appears, never goes home 

 from any party without first going and taking tea with 

 Lola Montes ! I wish I could recollect half the things 

 he said. He is a thorough man of the world and of 

 society, and most gentlemanly, though a trifle abrupt 

 in manner. I did not altogether like the way he 

 spoke of my old friend Dr. Chalmers and his 

 posthumous works. 



2 ^rd March. Went to Barlow s. A crowd there ; 

 among others Dilke and his wife, Baden Powell and 

 his wife, Lady Shelley, Miss Grant, Captain and 

 Mrs. Smyth, Warington and Miss Smyth. Louis 

 Blanc ! Some ladies made a demi-lion of him. I 

 was ashamed of them, and wondered Barlow could 

 ask such a man to his house. I would be ashamed to 

 have so foolish and mischievous a fellow in mine. He 

 is a little pragmatical individual, insignificant in person, 

 and insignificant in any appearance of an enlarged 

 intellect. P elite sse is the word that expresses him 

 in all things. 



In the prospect of soon taking the field again, he 

 wrote to Aveline from London on 27th March : 



MY DEAR TALBOT My lectures will be over this 

 week. I shall examine the class on Tuesday, and as 



