Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1841-08-03
(Fnom Mrs sedg~ick's new yvurkO

- Il aOAIE
! believe, of all my pleasures here. dear J will
mosi envy me that of seeing Joanna B,illie, aud OF
seeing her repeatedly nj her own Lomc; The hest
point uf view for all best women. She lives on
Hampstead HILL. n few milhs from town, in n mod.
est house, with Agnes Bailie, her only sister. a most
KINDLY aud agreeable person. Miss Bailie--I write
Tor j., for we women always like 10 know how one
another look and dress-Miss Bailie has a well
preserved appearance; her face has nothing of the
vexed or sOnrowiDg expressions that isOiten SO deeply
stamped by n long experience OF life. II indicates a
strong mind, great sensibilily, and the benevolcnce
mat believe. always proceeds from il # the men.
TAI constitution be a sound one, as it eminenily is in
Miss Baillies case. She has a pleasing Grure-A
what we call lady like-ihai is delicate, erect, and
graceful; not the large boned. muscular frame. of
most English women. See wears her own gray
hair; a general fashion, 10y tie way, here, which
wish we elderly ladies Of America may have The
Courage and the taste TO initiate. and she wears the
pretiiest of brown silk gowns and bCnneis fitting the
beau IDEAL Of an old lady: an ideal she might inspire
fit has pre-eriaence. Yon would OF course. expect
her TO be- As she l.. free from pedaniy and oil modes
ut ofiec. sssslusShEnk yeu would be surprised to-
80 a domestic and oon6disa
i'ehi'S' mat you we're tesks~s af. ,fs woman
whose name Is best established among n, female
writer's OF ner country; in shori. forgetting ev..v,h;,s
but that you were IN the society OF most chasmins
and private g~enilewoman. She yvouII that al 6e.
male writers could) take for her a device a a. y,er
That clOses Itself against the nountide sun, aud I'm
folds in the evening shadows.
We lunched with Miss Baltic. MIR Tyler the his
historian. and his were present. Lord woodhouse-
lie. the intimate friend OF Saot. WINS their father
joanna Baltic appears 10 US, from Scots letters 10
her. TO have been his favonte friend; and The con
~versai'on Among 80 many personally familiar with
nm naturally turned upon him. and many n pleasant
anecdote WINS told. many a thrilling word quoted.
III was pleasant 10 hear these friends OF Scott and
Mackenzie talk Of them ne familiarly as we speak Of
w b, and oires household friends. They all agreed
m describing Mackenzie ss q juvial, hearty sort Of
person, without any indication in his manners and
conversation of the exquisite sentiment he infused
INTO hrs writings. One Of the parry remembeFed his
coming home one day in great gleo from n cockfght
and his wife saying 10 him. Oh. horny, Harry. YOU
put oil your feelings on paperfi
~ was glad 10 hear Miss Baille. who IL an mt.
mate friend Of LAZY Byron. speak Of her with ten.
der reverence, and finer c~onjugal infeiic.iy us not
ai al The result Of any quality OF indegciency on
her par;. but inevitable. Strange This u not Inc u.
niversul impression. after Byrons own declaration "a
Moore that "there never was better or even a
brighter kinder, ~ a more amiable and agreeabl,
being than Lady Byron"