She lives in a straggling, irregular cottage, like most of the cottages around Keswick, but beautifully situated, though far from the lake.
"Southey himself lived at Greta Hall, a much finer place, for many years, but he never owned it, and the gentleman who bought it will permit no one to see it.
"Miss Southey's house is overgrown with climbing plants, has windows opening to the ground, and is really a summer residence, not a good winter home.
"When Southey, in his decline, married a second wife, the family scattered, and this daughter, the only unmarried one, left him.
"We were shown into a pleasant parlor comfortably furnished, especially with books and engravings, portraits of Southey, Wordsworth, and others.
"Miss Southey soon came down; she is really pretty, having the fresh English complexion and fair hair.

She seems to be a very simple, pleasant person; chatty, but not too much so.

She is much engrossed by the care of three of her brother's children, an old aunt, and a servant, who, having been long in the family, has become a dependant.

Miss Southey spoke at once of the Americans whom she had known, Ticknor being one.
"The old aunt asked after a New York lady who had visited Southey at Greta Hall, but her niece reminded her that it must have been before I was born! "Miss Southey said that her father felt that he knew as many Americans as Englishmen, and that she wanted very much to go to America.

I told her that she would be in danger of being 'lionized;' she said, 'Oh, I should like that, for of course it is gratifying to know how much my father was valued there." "I asked after the children, and Miss Southey said that the little boy had called out to her, 'Oh! Aunt Katy, the Ameriky ladies have come! "The three children were called in; the boy, about six years old, of course wouldn't speak to me.
"The best portrait of Southey in his daughter's collection is a profile in wax--a style that I have seen several times in England, and which I think very pretty.
"We went down to Lodore, the scene of the poem, 'How does the Water come Down,' etc., and found it about as large as the other waterfalls around here--a little dripping of water among the stones.
COLLINGWOOD, Nov.