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BONKYL LODGE DUNS BERWICKSHIRE.
4 Oct 1908.
Dear Sir - For some weeks I have been hesitating whether I should trouble you with a letter to express my great admiration of your article on Lady Louisa Stuart in the July number of the Quarterly. As the humble editor of part of her letters perhaps you will forgive the intrusion of a stranger. I seriously mean it, when
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I say that I am very much impressed with the skill with which you have, to my mind, hit off exactly Lady Louisa's remarkable character. I am glad to say that I can remember her, though only as a deaf old woman, but I have heard much of her all my life from those who knew her intimately. I wish they were alive to be able
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to read what you have said of her - and I wish there were more of her letters of equal merit with those to Miss Clinton. There are more, but not of sufficient value for printing, in my judgement.
If you are acquainted with that curious book "Memoires d'un voyageur qui se repose" by Louis Dutens, you may remember ^(in Vol III) a remarkable story of Lady Louisa's Uncle Mr. Stuart Mackenzie speaking to an old Irish Priest at St. Germains who was present at the execution of Charles Ist.!
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so that I can say I remember a Lady whose Uncle spoke to a man who saw the execution of Charles Ist.! The Priest was over 100 years when Mr Mackenzie saw him
Believe me,
Yours sincerely
James A Horne
Please do not feel bound to acknowledge this letter - I merely felt it rather on my conscience not to say thank you for the pleasure you had given me.
