Famous houses and literary shrines of London (1912)
Adcock, Arthur St. John, 1864-1930, Adcock, Frederick · London, J.M. Dent & sons, ltd.; New York, E.P. Dutton & co. · leaf 236
d-ence with the lady he was destined to marry. MissAnna Isabella Milbanke. I look upon myself, hetells her in one of his letters, as a very facetiouspersonage, and may appeal to most of my acquaintancein proof of my assertion. Nobody laughs more, andthough your friend Joanna Baillie says somewhere… … fred^ Adcock. A PHILOSOPHER, ETC. 197 he protests : Gay but not content—verytrue. . . . You have detected a laughter false tothe heart—allowed—^yet I have been tolerably sin-cere with you, and I fear sometimes troublesome.In November he writes to her, I perceive by partof your last letter that you…
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