CHAP, in.] REMINISCENCES OF SEDBURY 19 



Festival was going on, but there was no thought of going to 

 hear it. In later years Eleanor possessed a good piano and 

 studied the theory of music, but I think that was prompted 

 by her general cleverness and activity of intellect rather 

 than by any special gift for music. She was teaching herself 

 Latin during our visit, and as time went on she acquired other 

 languages. She made beautiful models of fruits by a process 

 of her own invention. A collection of these was sent to an 

 International Exhibition at St. Petersburg and she acquired 

 sufficient knowledge of Russian to correspond with the 

 department of the Exhibition receiving them. 



After the break-up of the Sedbury home, consequent on 

 the death of Mr. Ormerod, who survived his wife z for many 

 years, Mary bought the lease of a house in Exeter and 

 settled there for the rest of her life ; the two younger sisters 

 took a house for three years in Torquay, where we were then 

 living as well as their, and our, old and beloved uncle, Dr. 

 Mere Latham. Wishing to be nearer London, they removed 

 to Isleworth and some years later to Torrington House, St. 

 Alban's, where they spent the remaining years of their lives. 



DIANA LATHAM. 



1 Sarah Ormerod died in 1860 aged 75 years. 



