The Washington herald., 1913-03-02

rope and America. At last, in his old
age. Raimond opened up negotiations
with the Agnews through Pinkerton
the famous American detective. The
painting was recovered in 1901. and
Mr.. Pierpont Morgan purchased 1t for
the enormous sum of thirty thousand
pounds sterling.
! Gen. Sir William Manning, the newn
appointed British Governor General OF
Jamaica. has applied before the Lon.
don divorce court for the dissolution OF
! conduct Of his wife, Lady Clara Man.
| ming (nee Ross) with Capt. Evan
Llewellyn, aid-de-camp to Sir William,
when the latter was Governor OF Nyas-
saland. The marriage took place at Lon
don in August. 1910. After living for a
while at Ewhurst. in Surry, the pair
Went to Nyassaland. To avoid the fever
season Lady Manning sailed for England
last September. The correspondent, who
went home on leave. Travelled on the
same boat In January Sir William
himself went home. and before leaving
the steamer at Southampton the fol-
lowing telegram was handed to him:
Just on abroad. Call Kings (the Army
agents) for letter-Kitty.
He called at Kings and found . letter
awaiting him addressed to His Excel
!ency, Sir William Manning" in the fol-
lowing terms:
Dear Hiddie.-I have long thought our
life together has been n great mistake
and that neither OF us really cares for
the other. 1t Is better ended. and have
gone away with Capt. Llewellyn. TO
whom am absolutely devoted and with
whom alone / can be happy. I know
you will set me free. and II you make
inquiries at the Burlington Hotel at
Dover You will find that We stayed the
night there on January .. 1913. Any let
ters addressed to my solicitors. Messrs
Lewis & Lewis. Elyplace, Holborn, will
reach me.-Yours, Kitty.
Lady Manning makes no defense. Sir
William had no suspicion that anything
was wrong until he read his wifes let
ter. He had inquiries made at once,
which convinced him OF the truth OF
his wffe's assertions. still he offered re-
peatedly to forgive her and take her
back IL she would give up the handsome
captain To this she turned a deaf ear.
The best known member of tho craw-
ford and Balcarres families, of Scot
land. was Lady Annie Lindsay who wrote
AUD Robin Gray" and kept her secret
so well for many years that several
other persons claimed the authorship.
an tg them a well-known clergyman. II
was not until Sir Walter Scott, in "The
Pfrate, mentioned Lady Anne by name
as the author of the famous ballad that
she at last publicly admitted the fact.
Among the treasures Of the Crawford
library are this same Lady Anne's
Memoirs. which fill eighteen large manu.
script booEs. She knew and was known !
by everybody and inspired more conf. !
dences than any other contemporary
woman. Her memoirs are a perfect gold :
nj val inf
fact OF her prohibition to delve into
them almost is tragic, because unfor- !
for the world Of letters. chron.
iclers. and historians. Lady Anne, with /
her memoirs. left the strictest instruc-
tons forbidding the reproduction in
print Of any matter which they con-
tanned.
From time immemorial the members of
the Crawford and Balcarres families
IS the .lighthearted'' Lindsays. Many
other great and famous Scottish fam
lies are distinguished In the same man.
ner by some alliterative epithet, among
hem the gay" Gordons, the doughty"
Douglasses, the gallant" Grahams, the
handsome" Hays.
Occasionally, however. the traditional
,pithets are anything but fiattering, as /
or instance. In the case Of the "haugh-
~ Hamiltons, or. worse still. the
'mucklemou'ed' Murrays. This trait of /,
he last-named family. also is locally i'm
nortahsed in a ballad, Of which one
rerso reads:
Frpm tho greed Of the Campbelis.
From the ire of the Dgummonds
from the pride Of the Grahama.
tfoa the wind Of the Murays
Good Lord deliver usl
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