The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1903-03-27

Visited by Miss Mory.
In her lecture before the Philosophi-
cal Society of the Woman's College,
Baltimore, recently Miss Ruthelea
Bernard Mory gave some interesting
information regarding the home Of Sir
George Calvert, the first Lord Balti-
more. The title Of the lecture was
"The Lords Baltimore and the English
Beginnings of Maryland" Miss Mory
has recently returned from abroad,
where she spent several years study
ing the English source of Maryland
history. The lecture was Interestingly
illustrated
In describing the early surroundings
Of the Calverts in Yorkshire, Miss
Mory stated that the old manor house,
known as Kiplin Hall, which exists in
Yorkshire today, was the actual home
which Sir George Calvert had built in
1922, at the height of his power and
advancement, by the celebrated archi-
tect, lingo Jones. This is the house
in which he probably planned the COL
ony Of Mary yland, where tue charter of
Maryland may have been outlined,
and where he lived until his death in
1882. The imposing old mansion re-
mained in the possession of the Cal
verts for century, or until about
Ills, when it passed to others, who
have kept it in the present excellent
state of repair.
Many interesting points were related
by the lecturer as to the lives and con-
nections of the Calverts, including a
graphic picture of contemporary uni
versity life at the time when the first
and second Lords Baltimore were sue
cessively students at Trinity College,
Oxford, where Miss Mory spent year
in study.
HISTORIC BACKGROUND.
The history of an American colony
is usually supposed to begin upon
these shores, but the beginnings OF
Maryland are so closely interviewer
with greater historic destinies as we'll
that no other colony, Miss Mory said,
can boast such brilliant historic back
ground, nor one which today possesses
in the mother country the actual con-
Meeting links which existed at the time
of its foundation, three centuries ago.
Its inception in the innermost circle OF
the court life of James I, its develop
ment in the mind of its founder, King
James Chief Secretary of State, as he
dwelt in the stately manor house stand
ing to-day in the not remote environs
of Durham Cathedral, its nurture and
administration from one of the most
famous English castles gives Maryland
a background pre-eminent in interest
and historic Importance.
"To appreciate the force of these
associations by contrast with the more
prosaic beginnings of New England" ="
MISS Mory said, lone need only visit
the southern borders of the same coun-
ty, Yorkshire, where from the small,
unromantic villages of Bantry, Scroohy
and Auste' field, the Pilgrims went
forth to Holland and finally to Am rica
Had the Puritans chosen Dutch Guia-
ma, in South America, which they seri-
ously debated, instead of home in
North America, the whole course OF
American history mi ght have been
changed. Under the enervating con.
ditions of tropical skies the South
American New Englander w.uld hard
ly have developed the genius for gene
research, for the guidance of
town meetings or for the eager inquiry
as to future punishment and eternal
destiny which have given him his dis
characteristics. Even the fac
uIty for historic investigation, which