I do not know whether I told you that she resented my article on Horace Walpole so much that Sir Stratford Canning advised me not to go near her.

She was Walpole's greatest favourite.

His Reminiscences are addressed to her in terms of the most gallant eulogy.

When he was dying at past eighty, he asked her to marry him, merely that he might make her a Countess and leave her his fortune.

You know that in Vivian Grey she is called Miss Otranto.