| Show byrona daughter A pathetic little story about the J ignorance no of lady lovelace byrons only daughter of her f fathers poems which we find in one of the volumes has already produced an explanation that before her death she slie became ac a constant student of them and conceived anin an intense admiration of the fattier father whom she had been brought up to dislike here is the story she was un an invalid tor for some time prior to her death and seldom left the house though her three children lord ockham cockham lord wentworth and lady anne rode out daily on their ponies I 1 have been told by the medical man who attended lady lovelace that he had from her own lips tile the astonishing statement that even after marriage ma ariage and up to a comparatively late period of her short life she had never read a line of her fathers poems little did poor byron dream of such filial dereliction when he wrote the many tender passages scattered through his works and to which he be doubtless trusted to rehabilitate him in the estimation of the child lie loved so deadly for surely those touching words had they met her eye should have counteracted any adverse impression made upon her infant mind by his calumniators Ei charge |
