[Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals by Maria Mitchell]@TWC D-Link bookMaria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals CHAPTER V 42/44
He has, however, two busts of Mrs. Somerville, from which I received the impression that she is handsome, but Mrs.Smyth tells me she is not so; certainly she is sculpturesque. "The royal family, on their retreat from Hartwell House, left their prayer-book, and it still remains on its stand.
The room of the ladies of the bedchamber is papered, and the figure of a pheasant is the prevailing characteristic of the paper.
The room is called 'The Pheasant Room.' One of the birds has been carefully cut out, and, it is said, was carried away as a memento by one of the damsels. "Dr.Lee is second cousin to Sir George Lee, who died childless.
He inherits the estate, but not the title.
The estate has belonged to the Lees for four hundred years.
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