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CHAPTEE III 



His Marriage to Miss Emma Brandling in 1859 Her Death in 

 1884 Succession to Title in 1861 Aviaries built at Lilford 

 Hall Visits to Spain in 1864 and 1865 Extracts from Diary 

 in Spain Letter written some years afterwards to his Brother, 

 the Hon. and Eev. E. V. Powys, on a proposed Tour in 

 Spain Walk through the New Forest with Tennyson- 

 British Ornithologists' Union in Tenterden Street Letters to 

 Canon Tristram, 1860 to 1866 Letter from Hon. Stephen 

 Powys Letters to Canon Tristram, H. M. Upcher, Dr. Albert 

 Giinther, Lieut.-Colonel Howard Irby, and Lord Walsingham 

 from 1872 to 1884. 



IN the winter of 1858-59, my father and mother 

 rented a villa at Nice, with General and Lady 

 Mary Fox. It was at this place that my brother 

 first became acquainted with Miss Emma 

 Brandling, who was on a visit to Lady Mary 

 Fox, at the Villa Gastaud. She was one of the 

 daughters of Mr. Brandling, of Low Gosforth, 

 Northumberland, a family well known in the 

 North for their possession of more than average 

 good looks. Emma was the youngest, and by 

 many persons considered the most beautiful of 



