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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 17: (search)
s her ill half the time, but she is a woman of great spirit, and carries it through with a high hand. . . . . Calhoun's, however, was the pleasantest of the ministerial dinners, because he invited ladies, and is the most agreeable person in conversation at Washington,—I mean of the Cabinet,—and Mrs. Calhoun is a very good little woman, who sometimes gives a pleasant ball. . . . . The Russian Minister is a strange, retired fanatic, in feeble health, who gives splendid dinners once a week. Addington, the British Charge, is a very acute, pleasant, well-informed man of letters, who gives very agreeable little dinners en garcon, twice a week, The Baron de Mareuil French Minister. is a truly elegant gentleman, in the largest sense of the term, and his wife is a very sweet and beautiful woman, with winning manners. They are now in severe mourning for the king, and see no company; but we went there sometimes, and dined with them once enfamille, most pleasantly. These are the chief of t
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 21: (search)
country. July 15.—I dined with Mr. T. Baring, and a small party, fitted to his fine bachelor's establishment, where nearly every person was a member of the House of Commons. The two persons I liked best, whom I had not seen before, were Sir George Grey, the principal Under Secretary for the Colonies, and Mr. Bingham Baring, eldest son of Lord Ashburton, of opposite politics, but both very intelligent men. Labouchere was there, and Wilmot, whom I had known as Secretary of Legation to Mr. Addington. The talk was chiefly on English party politics, which were discussed with entire good-humor and some raillery, the company being nearly equally divided on the points that now divide the nation. From dinner I went with Mrs. T. to Mrs. Buller's in Westminster, one of the leading old English Tory families, in which they have now both a bishop and an admiral, besides two members of the House of Commons; the youngest of whom, representing Liskeard, has lately made a speech in favor of th
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 26 (search)
Index to Vol. I. A Abbotsford, 282-284. Abbott, Jacob, 405. Ackerbaldt, J. D., 179. Adair, Right Hon. Sir Robert, 269. Adams, Hon., Charles Francis, 459. Adams, J., President of the United States, 12, 13, 30, 330, 339; death of, 377; eulogy on, by Webster, 378. Adams, Mrs. J., 13. Adams, J. Q., President of the United States, 12, 49, 54, 339, 349, 409, 459. Adams, Mrs. J. Q., 349. Addington, Mr., 350, 411. Agassiz, Louis, 421 and note. Aiken, Charles, 416. Alba, Count da, 248, 249. Albani, Cardinal, 181. Albany, Countess of, 183, 184. Aldobrandini, Princess, 256 and note. See Borghese, Princess. Alfieri Vittorio, 184. Alhambra, 230, 231, 232 and note. Alison, Dr., 427. Alison, Mrs., 426, 427. Alison, Rev. Dr., 280, 414. Allen, John, 265, 408. Allston, Washington, 316 and note, 388. Almack's, 296, 412, 413. American Institute, G T. lectures before, 393. Amiens, Bishop of, 254. Amsterdam, visits, 69. Ancillon, J. P. F.