CONTENTS 



INTRODUCTION BY THE BISHOP OF LONDON v 



PREFACE xv 



LETTER AND VERSES FROM THE DUKE OF ARGYLL . . xxi 



CHAPTER I 



History of Family Third Baron Lilford His Diary His 

 Meeting with Goethe in 1826 Appointed Lord-in-Waiting 

 to William the Fourth Two Letters from Lady 

 Holland's American Aunt, in 1769 and 1831 Miss Fox's 

 Diary at Holland House and Conversations with her 

 Father, 1823 to 1829 Her Marriage to Lord Lilford, 1830 

 A Dinner at Lord Holland's Town House in Old 

 Burlington Street in 1835 



CHAPTER II 



Birth of Thomas Littleton Powys, Subject of Memoir, in 1833 

 Schooldays Letter from Colonel Barclay, a School 

 Friend at Harrow Christ Church, Oxford, 1852 Letters 

 from Christ Church friends, Godfrey Webb, and the 

 Rev. F. M. Stopford Extract from Professor Alfred 

 Newton's Introduction to Lord Lilford's ' Coloured 

 Figures of British Birds' Letters to Alfred Newton 

 from 1852 to 1858 (Ornithological Rambles in Spain and 

 Sardinia) Origin of Ibis Magazine, .... 40 



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