Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1841-07-29
(From Mrs sedgwirA's new y,rk }

SCf-N.Nf DhiisLifs 81 HUME.
believe. of all my pleasures here. dear J will
most envy IN that Of seeing Juanua Bsillie. nnd of
seeing her repeatedly nj her own home; the best
poIEi of view for all best women. She lives on
Hampstead Hill. n few miliis from Town, in n mol.
est u 'uSe, wuh Agnes Bilie, her only sister. n most
kindly and agreeable person, Miss BIillic~-I write
fJr j.. fr we women always like To know how one
another lonk and dress--Miss BHllie has n we'll
preserved appearances; her face ias nothing Vt The
veHed or spnoNNiug eHpreSsiOa tin Is Uiien ~ deeply
stamped by n long experience OF life, % indicates a
strong mindi great sensiblliIy. and Ihs benevolcncc
that, believe, always proceeds lfOtu IL az the men.
idl constitution he a sonni lnc, as II eminently is in
Miss Bailiic's case. She hiss n pleasing figure
what we call lady like--ihat is delicate, erect, and
graceful; n't the large b0ned. muscular frame, oi
most English women. See wears her own gray
hart a general fashion, Ivy tho way here, which 4
wish we elderly ladies Of America may have the
coufase AID the tasIc To initiate. and she wears the
pretiiesi Of brown silk gowns and bcnneis filling the
bean ideal of an old 'ady: an ideal she might inspire
lift has pre-exisiencc. Yon would OF course. eTpect
her 10 be- asshe is, free from pedantry and all MOODS
II afftciaIion; but think yen would bc surprised To-
Ind yourself forgetting, in a domestic aud ~oonfdias
ieeing' that you were talking with the woman
whose name Is best established among Inc female
writer's oi Her %co1ntry5 in shnrt. forgetting everything
but Nat you we've ~ the lOcieiy Of most char4nips
aud private g~eHtlewOtn an. She would that all fe.
male rters cunld) take for h5r a device a n WEI
thai cluses itself against the nOunliGe sun, ard nm.
iUlds IN lhe evening shadows.
I'VE lunched with Miss Baillie. MIR TYLER The has
historian. and his were present. Lord WOodhouse.
lie, the intimate friend Of SaOff. was their father
JOANNA B1ilhe appears To us. frJm s OTIS letters 10
her. to have been his faTouie friend; and the con.
vcrsailon among ~ many personally familiar with
him naturally turned upon him. and nany a pleo.,p,
anecdoie was toll. mlny a thrilling word pro,eI.
1T was pleasant 10 hear these friends of Scott and
Mackenzie talk of thom as hnhlisrly ~ we speok Of
w B.. AMI oihes household friends. They al agreed
in describing Mackenzie rs n jpyisL hearty SORT Of
persln. without any indication IN his nanpe,s and
conversation ofiho exc pidie sentiment he infused
Inlo his writings. Que Ofihe parry -enent-,cJ M.
coming hume one day IN great CLEO from a cockGgbt
and his wife saying 10 him, Oh. horny, Harry, YOU.
put all your feelings on paper1
II was glad 70 hear Miss Billie, who IL nj, mi.
mite friend Of y y Byron. peak NJ her with len.
der reverence snj q Their csrjugal i~afelio.iy az mo,
NJ OIL the result ~ any qualify or indrpciencv an
her pari. bud inevitable. Strange this Is mo-, The N.
MY ersal impression anrr Byron own declaration :,
Moore that "fhore never was better or even .
brighter. n kinder. or a more amiable and oyrecsbr.
being Than Lady Byron"