86 LORD LILFORD 



Longfellow's little poeru, "Castles in Spain"; 



it exactly expresses the feeling of your very 



affectionate brother. 



'L.' 



When in England, his life was chiefly spent 

 at Lilford, although during the twelve or fifteen 

 years after his marriage he was well enough to 

 pay visits to friends in Devon and Norfolk. 

 His songs and his stories found equal favour in 

 both counties, and his power of making friends 

 congenial to him, with his rarer capacity for 

 keeping them, was a marked characteristic. I 

 find brief records of visits in Norfolk to the late 

 Lord and Lady Albemarle, to the Maharajah 

 Duleep Singh (in the days of the latter' s 

 princely magnificence and enormous battues 

 at Elvedon Hall), and to Mrs. Lyne Stephens. 

 A feeling little short of the warmest affection 

 existed between Lord Albemarle and my brother, 

 and although I suppose that even a Scotchman 

 could not have found the remotest blood con- 

 nection between the families, it pleased the 

 kindly and beloved old man to address the latter 

 as ' My dear kinsman.' 



