Volume compiled by Lord Clanwilliam, marked on the cover ‘Fragmentary, August 1795- June 1850’

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CMV33167

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D3044/F/13

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Volume compiled by Lord Clanwilliam, marked on the cover ‘Fragmentary, August 1795- June 1850’

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A volume compiled by Richard Charles Francis Christian Meade, 3rd Earl of Clanwilliam, marked on the cover ‘Fragmentary, August 1795- June 1850’ and containing reminiscences and extracts from his diaries, which give a full account of his life and career up to 1850.

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On p.99, Lord Clanwilliam notes ‘p.99 Constantine once told my uncle, that Paul had come to look for him in his room, and had thrashed the valet because he could not tell Paul where Constantine just then was, and, added the Grand Duke, it was a lucky chance that Paul did not examine the room. He would have found a quarto volume of Voltaire open at the passage, where Brutus justifies to Cassius the murder of Caesar: “Eh, ne crois-tu pas à ton charactère donner démenti, Si tu mets en balance une vie a la patrie”. (It is but fair to say, that the Grand Duke C. was always ready to boast of his French literature; did so to me at Karlsbad.) Kutaisoff was Paul’s valet, and had been ennobled, and made Master of the Horse. He kept a Mlle Chevalier, and adjourned to his mistress, changing his dress as soon as Paul was in bed.’ This is the same anecdote told in D3044/F/4.

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330 pp.

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The entries are written on one side until p.205, the end of the volume, when the volume is turned upside down and entries continued on the reverse side.

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Record created by:

Zoe Screti

Record created on:

30 May 2024