The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1888-09-15

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late has made as late in the morning
that the day is over before We know
where We are. Dublin has been very
gay great number of balls, of which
the lady misses none. Dancing is q great
passion with her. I wish You could see
her dance; you would delight in it, she
dances go with all her heart and soul
Everybody seems to like her, and behave
oivilly and kindly to her. There was a
kind Of something about visiting with
Lady Leitrlm, but it Is all over now.
We dined there on Sunday. and she was
quite pleasant, and Pamela likes her
very much"
Whiting on April 9th, 1898, from
Frescati, which he VAS then about to
leave, he says
"Poor Frescati! shall be very sorry
to leave it. [ look at all the trees and
places with regret. Ihope, however, to
sec everything blossom before go; for
two OF three DAYS will bring all the iilacs
completely. My dec. little wife ia very
well-goea on delightfully."-. Inever saw
her look SO we]l-she grows both broad
and long Indeed, she has taken quite
q fl CT growing"
! In this strsin Lord Edward writes i'll
several other letters, ali breathing Of his
domestic tastes and of his deep affection
for his wife. Writing on June 23rd,
1884, FROM Mr.. Connelly's lodge, in the
town OF Kildare, to which he had re-
moved after having had to leave Frescati,
he gives graphic description Of the
pretty house and grounds, and concludes
by saying. ''My deer wife aotes on it
and becomes it; shs is busy, in her little
American jacket. planting sweet peas
and mignonette. {" Their fret child was
born IN October, 1894, and, writing in
that month TO his mother he says:
1.-THE dear wife and baby go on as we'll
as possible. I think i need not tell you
how happy T am; it is dear little thing,
and very pretty nov, though at first it
was quite the contrary. WISH [ could
show tine baby TO- you all. Dear mother,
how you would love Is! Nothing is SO
delightful as to see it in it's mother g
arms, with her sweet, pale, delicate face,
and the pretty look she gives it,.
All the subsequent letters OF Lord
Edward to his mother are full of the
frst-born anu Pamela. In one he writes
-'1 an snre it will be some comfort to
you to hear that my dear wife goes on
eharmingly, q most excellent nurse, and
the little boy thriving. [ do not see
much likeness in him to atny body, he has
PANS chin, the eyes hlua, but not like
either of ours. However, ST present one
eannot Say much.' Writing from Dub
lin, November 10th, he says'' Pam gets
strong, and the little fellow fat and
saucy. He has taken such Fancy for
the candle that it is almost impossible to
make him sleep at night. e. cradle he
don't like. and wants always to have his
cheek ON his 1nama's breast. He every
day grows, think, likeme in his mouth
and nose, hut the eyes don't yet make
out" On November 25th, in tue same
year--'']rhe little fellow is delightful,
improving every day, lakes his walks,
and in short is every tning we could wash;
he must be taken great notice Of, spoken
to. danced, or otherwise he is not at ali
pleased ....-
| In 1896, Lord Edward Fitzgerald Wis
tied the Continent on matters relative to
the contemplated Irish Insurrectlon, and
brought Pamela with him. At Hamburg
their second child was born--a daughter
; who YVES called Pamela after her mother.
! In March, 1853 couple Of months
! before she instruction was to hsve taken
place. warrant for She arrest of Lord
Edward Fitzgerald was issued, and for
the two following months lie was son
his keeping in Dublin. Pamela lived
in Denzil!e street, and on May 18th their
daughter Enily was born there. On
2Srd May Lord Edward was captured by
Major Swan and Major SIR in the house
of Mr.. Murphy, feather merchant, 152
Thomas street, while he was in bed to
which he had been confined by cold.
He died in Newgate Jail on the 18th
June in his Bath year, from the effects Of
the bullet wound by which Major SIR
disabled him during his desperate resist
ance when discovered in Thomas street.
He was buried in a vault in st. Wer-
burgh's Church, Dublin.
PAMELA retired with her children to
Hamburg. All the property of Lord
Edward WAS confscated to the Grown BY
an Act Of Atta1nder. and it was only in
1919 that the Act Was repealed as The re-
suit OF very powerful influence brought
to bear on George III. Pamela lived