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found here for the mention of two only. 

 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. 



1 i%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. Petitesse 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 



