She relates that in the autumn of 1819 she made a visit to Mr.Murray, with her first husband, Charles Stothard, son of the well-known artist, for the purpose of showing him the illustrations of his "Letters from Normandy and Brittany." "We did not know," she says, "that Mr.Murray held daily from about three to five o'clock a literary levee at his house.

In this way he gathered round him many of the most eminent men of the time.

On calling, we sent up our cards, and finding he was engaged, proposed to retreat, when Mr.Murray himself appeared and insisted on our coming up.

I was introduced to him by my husband, and welcomed by him with all the cordiality of an old acquaintance.

He said Sir Walter Scott was there, and he thought that we should like to see him, and to be introduced to him.