The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-07-21
VANITY FAIR"
An Interesting Thackeray Letter That Car
ries His Characters Farther On.

An Interesting Thackeray Letter That Car.
ries His Characters Farther On.
A real find appears in Longman's
Magazine in the shape of letter Of
Thackeray to his friend and Leigh
Hunts friend, the Duke of Devon
shire. His grace had expressed his
regret at Vanity Fair" coming to
an end and his interest in the fur
Their adventures and fate of the char
acters. To crafty this curiosity
Thackeray wrote:
MY LORD DUKE-Mrs Rawdon Crawley,
whom l saw last week and whom informed
Of your grace's desire to have her portrait,
was good enough to permit me to copy little
drawing made Of her ''in happier days." she
said, with o sigh, by Smee. the Royal acade-
mician. aa al 4N
Mrs. Crawley now lives in a small but very
pretty little house in Belgray - nd is conspic-
uous for her numerous charlie, which always
get into the newspapers, and her unaffected
piety. Many of the most exalted and spotless Of
her own sex visit her and are OF opinion that
she Is most injured woman. There is no sort
Of truth In the stories regarding Mrs Crawley
ana the late Lord Steyne. The Ecentious char
acter OF that nobleman alone gave rise to re-
ports from which, alas, the most spotless life
and reputation cannot always defend them
selves. The present Sir Rawdon Crawley, who
succeeded his late uncle, Sir Pitt 1882 (Sir
Pitt died on the passing of the reform bill),
does not see his mother, and his undutifulness
is cause of the deepest grief to that admira-
BILE lady. If it were not for higher things,
she says, how could she have borne up against
the worlds calumny, q wicked husbands cru
0lty and falSeDeSS and the than lxlnsSpaSc Ghar
er than serpent's tooth. of an adored child?
But she has been preserved, mercifully pre-
served, to bear all these griefs and awaits her
reward elsewhere.
She took the style and title of Lady Crawley
for some time after Sir Pitts death in 1882
but 1t turned out that Colonel Crawley, gov
ernor Of Coventry island. had died of fever
three months before his brother, whereupon
Mrs Rawdon was obliged to lay down the title
which she had prematurely assumed.
The late Joseph Sediey. Esq. of the Bengal
civil service, left her two lakhs of rupees, on
the interest Of which the widow lives in the
practices Of piety and benevolence before men
toned. She has lost what little good looks she
Cnce possessed and wears false hair and teeth
1.-THE latter give her rather a CHASTITY look when
sne smiles} and for pious woman Is the best
crinolined lady in Knightsbridge district.
Colonel and Mrs. W. Dobbin live in Hamp-
shire, near Sir B. Crawley. Lady Jane was
eoOh1oeACt W bA2ciT ilttIS girl, a1lu tno laQleS
are exceedingly attached to each other. The
colonel's History of the Punjaub" is looked
for with much anxiety in some circles.
Captain and Lieutenant Colonel G. Sedley
Osborne Che wishes, he says, to be distinguish
ed from some other branches of the Osborne
family and descended by the mothers side
from Sir Charles Sedley) is, need not say,
well, for saw him in most richly embroider
ed cambria pink shirt. with diamond studs
bowling to your grace at the last party in Dew
onshire House He is in parliament, but the
property left him by his grandfather has,
hear, been a good deal overrated.
he was very sweet upon Miss Crawley, Sir
Pitts daughter, who married her cousin, the
present baronet, and good deal cut up when
he was refused He is not, however, a man to
be permanently cast down by sentimental dis
appointments bis chief cause of annoyance
at the present moment Is that he is growing
bald, but his whiskers are still without q gray
hair and the finest in London.
think these are the latest particulars relat-
ing to a number of persons about whom your
grace was good enough to express some inter
est am very glad to be enabled to give this
information and am your grace's very much
obllged servant, W. NJ. THACKERAY.