The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-07-17

Ia perfect In shape. The last pair OF shoes
modelled on them was made In May ldoi.
Mrs. Leigh Hunt says that the tG foot was
shrunkon. but was not n clubfoot. stendhalI
| says the RIGHT foot. Thorwnldsen indicates tho
len foot. DR.. James Milllngen. who inspected
the feet after the poet's denth. says that there
was a m%alformation OF the lett foot and leg. md
| that no was born %clubfooted. Two surgical
boots made for Byron when q child are In the
possession OF Mr.. John Murray; both. We are
told. are for tho right foot. ankle and leg, lit
be assumed that they wero made to it, they
are too long and thin for a clubfoot.
The first OF the poct's letters to his half sister
was written in March. 1904. when Byron was
10 years old. We scarcely need remind the
render that IL was nguinst this lady that a Sian.
derous impututlon was aimed by Mrs. Harriet
Beecher Stowe. A good deal OF information
relating to her will be found In footnotes
on pages 1920. The Hon. Augusta Byron was.
as we have said. tho daughter Of Capt. John
Byron by his first wife. Amelia darcy. only
child Of the last Earl OF Holdernesse. who was
Baroness Conyers In her W right, and the
divorced wife OF the Marquis OF Carmarthen.
After the return OF Capt. and Mrs. Byron from
the Continent to London early in 17SS. Augusta
Byron was brought up by her grandmother.
the Countess Of H~oldernesse. and, whom the lat
ter died, divided her time between her half sis
ter. Lady Pelham. her half brother George,w who
succeeded his father as sixth Duke OF Leeds.
her cousin. the Earl OF Carlisle, and Gen. and
Mrs. Harcourt. In 1907 she married her 1rst
cousin. Col. George Leigh Of the Tenth
Dragons. the son OF Gen. Charles Leigh. by
Frances. daughter Of Admiral the Hon. John
Byron. BY her husband, who was q friend Of
the Prince Regent, and well known in society.
she was the mother Of seven children. Augusta
Byron seems scarcely to have seen her brother
between his infancy and 1902: but thencefor-
ward until his death she took In him the in
terest Of an elder sister. From the end Of 1905
the correspondence between them was main
tanned to the end Of Byron's life. To Augusta,
then Mrs. Leigh. Byron sent o presentation
copy OF "Childe Harold" with the inscription:
ITO Augusta, my dearest sister and my best
friend. who has ever loved me much
better than / deserve. this " volume IL
presented by her fathers son land most
af%fectlonate brother" She was the god
mother Of Byron's daughter. Augusta Ada.
born Dec. 10. 1915. Early in january. 1915.
when Lady Byron was still with her husband.
she wrote OF and to Mrs. Leigh: I'm this. at
least, l am truth itself. when / say that. what
ever the situation may be, there 10 no one whose
society is dearer to me or can contribute moro
to my happiness" Lady Byron left her hus-
band on Jan. 10. 1915. Writing within a few
days afterward TO Mrs. Leigh from Kirby NAL
lory, she speaks Of her as her best comforter
notices her absolute unsel1shness. and says
that Augustus presence in Byron's house in
Plccadilly is her great comfort" Through
Mrs. Leigh passed many communications be-
tween Byron and Lady Byron after the separa-
ton. To her Byron in 1915 and 1877 wrote the
49, - a. ,-,,.A - Az Nil
to Augusta" and the journal Of his Journey
OF Manfred" She was in his thoughts on
the Rhine and In the third canto Of "Childe
Harold:'
But one thing want these banks OF Rhine, '
Thy gentle hand to clasp in mine.
To her he was writing q letter at Missolonghi
tFeb. %. 1924. which he did not live to finish
MY dearest Augusta. I received a few days
ago yours and Lady Byron's report OF Ada's
health" He carried with him everywhere the
pocket Bible which she had given him. II
have a Bible" he told DR.. Kennedy. which my
sister gave me, who is an excellent woman. and
/ read It very often" His last articulate words
| were. MY sister: my child" 1t seems that
several volumes Of Mrs. Leigh's common.
place books are in existence; most of the ex'
tracts with which they are filled are or
religious topics. She was. wrote the late Ear
Stanhope. in q letter quoted in the Quarterlr
Rerie,o for October. 1869. very fond" Of talk.
ing about Byron. "She was.' he continues
extremely unprepossessing in her persona
appearance; more like a nun than anything
and never can have had the least pretension t.
beauty. I thought her shy and sensitive to
fault in her mind and character Frances
Lady Shelley. who died in January. 1873. anC
was acquainted with Byron and his contempt
rares. speaks Of her as Dowdy- Goody."
".
On page 1873 will be found a long and in
t~eresting ~footnote about John Cam Hobhouse
who. born in 1880. was In 1851 created Barol
Broughton de Gyfford. From a school at Brls
tol Hobhouse had been sent to Westminste
and thence to Trinity. Cambridge. where h
made BYron,s a~cauaintance. In 1900 he nuh