Volume 1

Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, as related by herself in conversations with her physician : comprising her opinions and anecdotes of some of the most remarkable persons of her time.

  • Meryon, Charles Lewis, 1783-1877.
Date:
1846
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, as related by herself in conversations with her physician : comprising her opinions and anecdotes of some of the most remarkable persons of her time. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    September last (p. 449) a paragraph, which the writer must have known was a misrepresentation of facts. It is there asserted that the Earl Stanhope had given a flat contradiction to a portion of Dr. M.’s Conver- sations. Now, the critic ought to have been aware that what his lordship denied was no part of the “ Conver- sations,1’ but an extract from a letter written by Lady Hester herself to his Grace the Duke of Wellington ; and yet, not acting with the fairness and impar- tiality which became him, and becomes every person sitting in judgment on another, he forgets to give at the same time the answer, and in this way hopes to cast odium on the Author of the Memoirs, at the expense of truth and justice. No apology therefore is needed for inserting the answer, thus, it is to be hoped, unin- tentionally omitted, and which was as follows :— 44 The Author of the 4 Memoirs of Lady Hester Stanhope1 presents his compliments to the Editor of the Morning Post, and, in reference to that portion of a letter from the Earl Stanhope, which appeared in the Morning Post on the 10th inst., wherein his lord- ship complains of an assertion 4 that he went to dine in company with Mr. Fox when Mr. Pitt was on his death-bed 1 beers leave to inform him that it was not