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Lady Hester Lucy STANHOPE: a New Light on Her Life and Love Affairs Lady Hester Lucy STANHOPE: A New Light on Her Life and Love Affairs. By FRANK HAMEL Author of “ An Eighteenth Century Marquise,” “ Jean de la Fontaine,” “ The Dauphines ot France,” etc. etc. With Twenty Full-page Photogravures CASSELL AND COMPANY, LTD L o n d o n , N ew Y o r k , T o r o n t o a n d M elb o u r n e MCMXIII I PREFACE N his six volumes of “ Memoirs of Lady Hester Stanhope ” I and “ Travels of Lady Hester Stanhope ” Dr. Meryon, her physician, confined himself chiefly to material which he gathered from her Ladyship’s conversation and such por­ tions of her correspondence as came into his hands. More than half a century after the publication of these works the late Duchess of Cleveland’s loyal and detailed life of her aunt was privately printed, in 1897. Besides referring to Dr. Meryon’s MSS., the Duchess had access to family papers he had never seen; but even then there are many incidents of Lady Hester’s story of which the Duchess was ignorant, or which she chose to pass over in silence. In the first place, she does not mention Lady Hester’s love affair with Michael Bruce, and her magnanimity in giving him up when the time came for him to follow his career in England—a career which unfortunately did not turn out as brilliantly as Lady Hester expected. This episode is the pivot upon which Lady Hester’s Eastern experiences turn. I gathered it by piecing together passages from her own letters, hitherto suppressed by, or unknown to, her biographers, extracts from Dr. Meryon’s letters which have come into my possession and have never been printed iv Preface before, and various other documents, collected for the first time to form a complete account. In the second place, the Duchess of Cleveland never attempted to solve the question of the possibility of Lady Hester’s marriage or love affair with an Arab sheik, a matter which Lady Hester refused to discuss openly to the close of her life. I can find no documentary references to this marriage, and it is impossible to make a definite state­ ment upon merely hearsay evidence. The report has reached me, however, from so many more or less reliable sources, that it is impossible to ignore it altogether. I have talked with several people who remember friends in the East who had seen and spoken to Lady Hester’s “ husband,” but no name has been divulged. Lady Burton, when writing of the Hon. Jane Digby (Lady Ellenborough) in her Memoirs, said she was worthy to be Lady Hester’s successor. Jane Digby mairied a sheik by Mahometan rites, or, as Miss Stisted crudely puts it, in her Life of Sir Richard Burton, she “ capped her wild career by marrying a camel driver.” There may be something in the suggestion that confusion has arisen between the stories of these two Englishwomen who found romance in the desert. Lady Hester was too proud to marry any Arab but the highest in rank, so that the choice of possible persons is not a large one, and in time the solution to this—probably the last—important unsolved problem of her life may come to light. Consider­ ing for a moment the possibility of a foundation of fact for these persistent rumours, it seems probable that the alliance with an Arab sheik must have taken place about 1820, at the time of Meryon’s second visit. His mention Preface v of this visit is mysteriously brief, being dismissed cursorily in the opening chapter to the “ Memoirs ” with the words, “ Her Ladyship had in the meanwhile completely familiarised herself with the usages of the East, conducting her establish­ ment entirely in the Turkish manner . Under these circumstances . I again bade her adieu.” (jSee p. 239.) At the time when the Duchess of Cleveland wrote her book it was no doubt impossible for her to have had access to the information about Lady Hester included in my chapter on “ Lady Hester i n t i m e taken from the valu­ able new Meryon manuscripts, and in hitherto unpublished letters from her to Mr. Nassau Sutton, General Grenville, Lord Strangford, Mr. Silk Buckingham, and many others; but she might have made use of the various facts contained in Lady Hester’s will, which I may confidently say she never saw. The will (given in extenso at p. 314) is impor­ tant because it proves without question that Lady Hester intended to return to England when she sailed for Gib­ raltar in 1810. Lady Hester left all her personal estate to her half-brother, the Hon. James Stanhope, or, in case of his death, to Colonel Paul Anderson. No other member of the family was mentioned in the will except the Hon. Charles Stanhope, who was killed at Corunna in 1809, before the codicils were added. After the death of Lady Hester, Colonel Anderson, the surviving executor and residuary legatee, renounced probate and execution of her will and codicils, whereupon (in 1844) letters of administration, with the will and three codicils annexed, of her estate were granted to the attorneys of Messrs. Cabab£ and Sons, and Jacob Abello and Antoon Misk, to whom the claims of VI Preface her creditors had been assigned. I have before me an inter­ esting note from the present representative of the Cababe family, which shows that his grandfather and Mr. Misk, of the British Consulate in Beirut, subsequently dealt with the property. The question whether Lady Hester wished to have her biography written has never been satisfactorily settled, but her letter to the Doctor in 1829 asking him to burn every scrap of her writing would point to the probability that she preferred oblivion. In the ten years that followed before she died, however, she changed her mind. At all events, Dr. Meryon declared that she did so. When, under this impression, he published three volumes of ” Memoirs ” in 1845 and three of “ Travels ” in 1846 he was severely criticised by his reviewers for disclosing to the world pri­ vate matters communicated to him by Lady Hester during professional attendance; but after a careful study of his biographical material it must be conceded that on the whole he was very fair to her. He wrote nothing which might have compromised her, and he omitted from his letters between 1810 and 1817 any passages which could have led to a revelation of her more intimate confidences. It is from these autograph letters, written on the spot and untouched by the mature reflection which coloured the published version given to the world some thirty years later, that I have drawn much of my information. The Doctor was very human, and though many people have blamed him for a few obvious failings, they have not taken sufficiently into account the hardships of his situation, the real interest he took in Lady Hester, his genuine admira- Preface vn tion for her talents, and his wish to refute the absurd and scandalous reports which circulated freely about her in England. I do not intend here to hold a brief for Dr. Meryon, but taking into consideration circumstances in his life with which the public are not familiar, it seems to me that he has had but scant justice shown to him, and that those who take exception to his conduct might have acted in much the same manner had they been placed in his diffi­ cult position. It is not surprising, considering the strange facts of Lady Hester’s life, that (as one of her admirers said) “ the bare mention of her Ladyship’s name has repeatedly awakened intense curiosity,” more especially amongst those of her own sex, and I venture to think that the new light thrown upon this extraordinary woman by the following chapters will justify their existence. I have to express my indebtedness to many kind friends who have helped me in the preparation of my book, and especially to Mr. A. M. Broadley and Mr. R. Nassau Sutton Nelthorpe for their courtesy in placing some original letters at my disposal. FRANK HAMEL. 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Volunteering at Walmer (1803-4) 33 VII. Pitt’s Last Years (1804-6). 40 VIII. Sir J ohn Moore (1807-8) . 54 IX. A Visit to Wales (1809) . 62 X. Malta (1810) .... 72 XT. An I ll-assorted Trio. 82 XII. A Glimpse of Byron . 89 XIII. Michael Bruce .... 96 XIV. Passion and Politics (1811) 107 XV. Shipw reck...................................... 119 XVI. Egypt (1811) .... 124 XVII. The Holy Land (1812) 128 XVIII. Among the Arab Tribes 136 ix X Contents CHAPTER PA«* XIX.
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