MEMOIRS OP LEONARD HORNER 345 



drunken man (and no drunken woman !) between Holyrood 

 and the Castle Hill.' 



Mrs. Lyell had just printed for private circulation the 

 ? Memoirs of Leonard Horner,' her father. 



The Camp, Sunningdale : October 22, 1890. 



I find it delightful in spirit, matter and style. The 

 account of Holland after its Napoleonic barbarities is not 

 only instructive, but quite new to me. I do not know where 

 else a reader could get in so few pages such a living and 

 moving impression of the state of the country and its causes. 



Nothing can bear higher testimony to your father's 

 calm temperament and noble soul, than that he too, after all 

 he saw, should not have felt some spark of that fire of revenge 

 that he so well describes as coursing in the breast of others, 

 and as so inhuman and unwise : though, alas, so natural, 

 and perhaps in some degree useful. 



Indeed I had every reason to love and venerate Mr. 

 Horner and Mrs. Horner, and I do so most truly. After 

 Lyell's life, none could interest me more, personally linking 

 as they do my early with my later life in bond of the kindest, 

 warmest friendship, and most intellectual intercourse. 



Of the two intimates whose death is next recorded, Gifford 

 Palgrave was his first cousin, 1 his mother being a daughter of 

 Dawson Turner ; and Mrs. Busk was the widow of George 

 Busk the anatomist, a member of the inner circle of the 

 x Club. She was an accomplished and gifted woman, with 

 great social charm. 



1 William Gifford Palgrave (1826-88), whose mother was a daughter of 

 Dawson Turner ; scholar, writer and diplomatist. He early felt the call of the 

 East ; entered the Indian army, and left it to take up missionary work as a 

 Jesuit in South India, and in Syria, where he barely escaped with his life from 

 the Damascus massacre of June 1861. Then in 1862-3, partly with a view to 

 missionary enterprise, partly with a semi-political commission from Napo- 

 leon III, he traversed Arabia, disguised as a Syrian Christian doctor, visiting 

 places to which no European could penetrate. His Narrative of >a Year's 

 Journey through Central and Eastern Arabia is well known. Later he withdrew 

 from the Jesuit Order, and entered the British Diplomatic service, where his 

 astounding facility in acquiring languages stood him in good stead. He was 

 entrusted with a mission to King Theodore, as a last resort before the 

 Abyssinian war, to demand the release of the English captives. Afterwards 

 he was Consul in Asia Minor, in the West Indies and Manilla, in Bulgaria, 

 Bangkok, and finally as minister-resident in Uruguay, where he died. 



