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[Illustration:  _Emery Walker Ph.Sc._
 _Lady Dorothy Nevill_
 _painted by G.F. Watts R.A. in 1844_ ]




                       Leaves from the Note-Books

                                   of

                          Lady Dorothy Nevill




                               EDITED BY
                              RALPH NEVILL





                       MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
                      ST. MARTIN’S STREET, LONDON
                                  1907




                                PREFACE


When, some time ago, a collection of my mother’s reminiscences was given
to the public, we received a large number of suggestions that a second
similar volume would be certain of the same cordial welcome as was
extended to the first. The following pages, containing memories and
observations extending over a long period of years, are the