New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-08-21
THACKERAY.
"REMINISCENCES BY HIS COUSIN.

Tbaekersy,s work. Mr Leslie stephen says Moth
ing could be told Of Mr. rn@cEer c khPST I@ds Which
,TonId moi confrm the highest estimate derivahe from
ms %rtngs o. Ms natnr" and all HAT could be told
would tend to Justify TIE profound ah'cuoh VII" WHICH
lie was my first cousin. although twenty-one years
my senior. his father having been hf MIRA; Tg ct
seven sons and four daughters lie was alHo one u,
my godishfrs may 70 mere I my Written by Thac
cray TO his mother at the end OF lo3l "Hh 'nrl,, .
mas Day dine with a my @ 'aS d ik Dimes
week met pleasant party IN n'e sda l1 Pacc and
Thackeray was a young of twenty. just stab
iished in chambers in Hare Court Temple to read law.
alusion 10 nv father who two years later moved 10
Broxboune died there early in l.i2 Is IN ShI ln
nj rest under the turf" And then, after aposlro.
phizng some other cergym%n he s%f won ON and Your
calling May this pen GeyGr W wpnn eter This
Nv own earliest recoections Of him date from the
spring Of 1919. used from that time to sPthu |"
few days with him the end of the Easter holidays
before going hack to Eton T Ms b9 pS hoS No.
10 Youngest. Kensington: which can never pa n
moved handsome old mother ana , dGar c ou cy
ernor OF Addiscombe, and In some respects was tne
original of Colonel Neweome ~, were Gs sSo Of his fame
0Vaniiy Fair" begun in January. l-47, was CON
pleted in July, l740. "Pendenni'' came out III ''''
well remember the first numbers Of the former in
Ssneties his pencil Il was in $50 d 5hS'
his long f9nnSco9 wn and amused at his
Gus drawings for that periodical which were econ,
stantly being brought In To him on Their DON W'ou
blocks before being printed off In these visits which
took place every year iii 1s32 when wcnt ~ tS TM
anv one whom / had ever met. And looking back
after interval Of forty years feel ina, WaS mo-
wrong and that there something i'll iI iinu any
character larger and more spacious more liberal, WIN
ess % h ol hcSn S fortune ever to
in this respect would compare him. TO dyn a%r
his bright genial smile. his ptly amusing sentence
and his CHEEKY greeting. There was no'mls III lne
oSc o see if ev arc regarded as borcs their
elders The description TacituS gives us OF Gra GC ors
supererat Bonum vrum acilc crederes' mag mum
Mr.. Leslie stephen we'll says: His kindly feeling
for the schooboy is constantly coming up in his books
Is i Gdl e aGminsernr psa duty which he
took to discharge cfectualy IN ms own person
experience. ] visited. rarely saw him al tmS
time without having sovereign slipped INTO hSo na mg
pocket picked in an omnibus, he emptled me whoe
his purse into my hands The cIaT Mo1 uc
more than had lost This was when ne was a Ni H
ichtfnl visits he would spare pains in taking me
to places of amusement-the play or the paniomime,,-
Club where remember his checking some one In the
act Of hurting out an OATH the utterance Of which
he would not tolerate in my presence;;
I've have love for all little boys at school for
'Punch-nay he never write word that shall not be
honest s9s IT for %hd then to or
galleries or other public places OF ener,alnmc; ne
S a s n" %ns have S"T pu s's' a% G
convenience and the sacrifice of valuable time mat
he thus made could understand alter
S1ssass 's suceny the scr.s once nee
n good place after staying little while. he said
aNow must leave you, and 60 and make hvepound
saw him on the day Of the opening of the great
exhibition Of i5 on which eS T0'e ms nT N
fairylike scene inside the palace Wit which ne ma
been e 1DS e w5 and he %v ThS for
Elton, in 1872 he took much interest in my prospects
e e%a ES"i' and have Hr G% where had
himself been snt MeTC Settled tbG Gme
ton Of my university. For the next four or I'VE years
from this time regret much that we net but Sedorl;
to be married staying at oxford. and received
from him the following letter:
III thought all that laundering about Brompton
meant something. congratulate you with all my
Wbat can saw NOR, but that am yours and your
wife's Ahcc'ionaeiy Away nW, NJ. rnAcKrRAy.
cam just out Of bed having be',n ill., Am going
oxford you billing and cooling"
Once when was walking in London wit, the lady
who aferward became my wife he suddenly
upon us as looking in at the window of LAM
s sa@ S"s'"1 sSid Sgoos% MS time he va,
10 his friend. the sculptor. Baron Marochelu'
T T4S% Gns to OF ins dScq him G
o. used 10 meet many celebrities AT one o. iheSc
L3ulllabaisse. How touching in connection with The
writer of them are the closing sianzas OF the ballad
after Macaulay!s death the conversation turning upon
e9 G1np "7 %nen % host S pc % ana
would not allow it 10 20 on lie was giant i
s 1881 ind t ,h ing entry G SAW W. g IT, in bud h
ne Macaa 9' WT T III e on af @ Of
that year, he says: There's something about Eton
chapters" Ut Is in chapter H. OF The Adventures
ri PfeP kda G was ag orc SP s Pms
had on the word Of three Eton men. who had been
h 1o to WnaSr soppS mc oyG %d ia 9Tc @
put down your name for The Athenaeum' and your
the subject 10 either OF them When | came on
fF sooS men 6ad & ons ID ana 5 TO
look out for new propo.er ana ,ecqnd(r iad IT
"Roundabout Papers''-s,rangc to say club paper
haze One De other eef % SS& SIR In
rS Cs To s Pf Scr %N@ r e nGeT
T mnsiSr u SG9T NOTE Of r 9n e ring Of most
Cornhili Magazine for May the article Little Scholars
Is by my dear old fat Amy. She sends YOU her
love 50 does Minny. We're going ont 10 drive.
We've got two bosses in our carriage now. The
Magazine goes on increasing. and how much do Won
think nv next twelve months earnings and receipts
will be If work 10000. Cochadoodlooodloodlc.
we are going spend 1000 in building house
on Palace Green. Kensnston. We have onr health.
we have brought Granny and G.. y. to live at
Rromnton Crescent close by Us. and my dear
old Davuss faltnul ,,
Early in 1859 he moved into the beautiful house
buu In Queen Annc's style: but he was not destined
10 enjoy Il long ! remember falling in with him IN
the international Exhibition Of Art and Industry held
In that wear on the site OF what l. now Cromwell
Road We walked through some Of The courts To-