BEING AN ACCOUNT OF HOW SHE NURSED HER HUSBAND, COLONEL SIR WILLIAM HOWE DE LANCEY, QUARTERMASTER-GENERAL OF THE ARMY, MORTALLY WOUNDED IN THE GREAT BATTLE LONDON JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W. 1906 Major William Howe De Lancey Major William Howe De Lancey 45 th Regiment c. 1800. Emery Walker Ph.Sc. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS INTRODUCTION A WEEK AT WATERLOO IN 1815 NOTES TO LADY DE LANCEY’S NARRATIVE APPENDIX A Letters to Captain Basil Hall, R.N., from Sir Walter Scott and Charles Dickens APPENDIX

The following narrative, written over eighty years ago, and now at last given to the world in 1906, is remarkable in many respects. It is remarkable for its subject, for its style, and for its literary history. The subject—a deathbed scene—might seem at first sight to be a trite and common one. The mise-en-scène —the Field of Waterloo—alone however redeems it from such a charge; and the principal actors play their part in no common-place or unrelieved tragedy. "Certainly," as Bacon says, "Vertue

I arrived at Brussels on Thursday, 8th June 1815, and was much surprised at the peaceful appearance of that town, and the whole country from Ostend. We were billeted in the house of the Count de Lannoy, in the Park, which is a square of very beautiful houses with fine large trees in the centre. The Count de Lannoy was very attentive, and we had a suite of very excellent rooms, up four stories, which is the fashion in that country, I believe. It was amusing enough, sometimes, to see from our wind

Most of the following notes have been compiled by Mr T.W. Brogden, of the Middle Temple, to whom I take this opportunity of expressing my indebtedness for his assistance in the preparation of this volume, and for his kindness in seeing the book through the press, during my absence in Canada. EDITOR. (1) "On Thursday the 15th June we had spent a particularly happy morning. My dear husband gave me many interesting anecdotes of his former life, and I traced in every one some trait of his amiable an

Letters to Captain Basil Hall, R.N., from Sir Walter Scott and Charles Dickens. [34] [34] From the autograph collection in the possession of Lady Parsons. " My dear Captain Hall , "I received with great pleasure your kind proposal to visit Tweedside. It arrived later than it should have done. I lose no time in saying that you and Mrs Hall cannot come but as welcome guests any day next week, which may best suit you. If you have time to drop a line we will make our dinner hour suit your arrival, b

Reminiscences , by Samuel Rogers, under the heading: "Duke of Wellington," p. 210. Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence of Thomas Moore , edited by Lord John Russell, Journal of 29th August 1824, vol. iv., p. 240. Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington , by Earl Stanhope, p. 182. Letter from Sir Walter Scott to Captain Basil Hall, R.N., dated 13th October 1825, published in the Century Magazine (New York), April 1906, and in Appendix A , ante . Letter from Charles Dickens to Captain