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of Melbourne and Mowerina, who was herself the 

 daughter of Emma, the dam of Cotherstone. Sir 

 William's letter was couched in the following 

 terms : — 



" I have just seen in the English and French 

 papers an account of the death of my old friend 

 John Bowes, with whom I was very intimate forty 

 years ago. He was tall, slight, dark-haired, very 

 refined, but very shy and very reserved. Most of 

 his life was spent in Paris, where he devoted him- 

 self to a second - rate actress whom he married, 

 and for whom he hired the Varietes Theatre, 

 whereby he lost a lot of money. When Mundig 

 won the Derby in 1835, Bowes, who won nearly 

 £20,000 on the race, returned from Epsom quite 

 unmoved. A friend of mine, long ago dead, 

 happened to dine that same evening at Crock- 

 ford's, and asked the waiter who that dark 

 pale young man might be who was dining very 

 quietly by himself in a corner of Crockford's su- 

 perb salle-a-manger. ' Oh, sir,' replied the waiter, 

 ' that is Mr Bowes who won the Derby this 

 afternoon.' The same imperturbability was dis- 

 played by him at Doncaster, where, from the top 

 of the Jockey Club Stand, he saw his fine colt, 

 Epirus, driven on to the top of the bank on the 

 other side -of the course, where he fell, extinguish- 

 ing his chance of winning a race which, with 

 his fine speed and in very moderate company, 



