THE LATE MISS JULIA WEDGWOOD.
[To THE Emma OF MI .Sractsma.") SIR,—It may interest some of your readers if I supplement the sympathetic end critical sketch of the late Miss Julia Wedgwood which Dr. Herford—a friend of thirty years— wrote in your last issue by a line or two from another point of view. Last spring I received from her a charming letter introducing herself as "a shameless plunderer" from the chapter on Liverpool in my book, The English Scene in the Eighteenth Century, which had been recently published. Some pleasant correspondence followed—letters from her full of animation—and I next bad the pleasure of paying Miss Wedgwood a visit. One sometimes wishes one could associate, for a time personally, with people of a past age. To talk with Mies Wedgwood gave this impression. Her memory of the past was so clear, and her mental alertness so considerable, that she talked of things and people of nearly a century ago as if she had met them yesterday. But in a moment she would come to the present, and discuss subjects of the day with noticeable acumen and wisdom. Nor did she forget the future, and the work on Josiah Wedgwood on which she was engaged. This visit left a memorable impression of a most remarkable woman, and I regret that the hope expressed by her and by me that it would be repeated was, through various 'circumstances, never I ulfilled.—I am, Sir, Sic.,
E. S. Roscoe.
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