117/791 [In pencil--Was she not 70? [XVII.] Peter Henry Bruce, having given in his entertaining Memoirs the substance of this Tale, affirms that, besides the concurring reports of others, he had the story from the lady's own mouth. The Lady Catherine, mentioned towards the close, is the famous Catherine, then bearing that name as the acknowledged wife of Peter the Great. *_Ibid._ Early in life this story had interested me; and I often thought it would make a pleasing subject for an Opera or musical drama. |