Grant, who was his private secretary, and is an amusing man.

Lord Melbourne is going there again to-morrow to stay until Monday.

The place is beautiful; it is not like Claremont, but it is quite of the same character, and always puts Lord Melbourne in mind of it.

The Duchess has many merits, but amongst them is the not small one of having one of the best cooks in England.
[Footnote 104: Madame de Lieven wrote to Aberdeen, 12th September 1841: "Ne jugez pas cet Ambassadeur par son exterieur; il personnifie un peu les Marquis de Moliere....
Passez-lui ses cheveux poudres, son air galant et papillon aupres des femmes.

He cannot help it."] [Footnote 105: Sir Henry Bulwer, afterwards Lord Dalling.] [Footnote 106: Sir Charles Bagot.] [Footnote 107: He was a pupil of Raphael, celebrated for (among other works) his "Fall of the Titans."] [Footnote 108: The word is almost illegible.