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INEDITED LETTERS OF LAURENCE STERNE. 66 [FEBRUARY, 1855. Je l'ai beaucoup exhorté à venir nous y joindre: j'aurai soin THE following letters addressed to John Hall Steven-d'avoir une bonne chambre pour lui dans le même hotel où son, Sterne's Eugenius," are more characteristic of that writer than any of those already printed with his works, and are a sufficient evidence that all the letters which passed under the editorial emendations of his daughter Madame Lydia de Medalie, have been despoiled of their raciness from an erroneous estimate of what was due to his memory. Antecedent to these two letters, the following extracts present much in elucidation of Sterne's position and sentiments, as expressed in them. There was a certain waywardness in the conduct of Mrs. Sterne, which greatly accounts for the alleged indifference towards her, so generally laid to the charge of her husband; in fact, there is no question, that the marriage tie between them was anything but a happy junction of persons. M. Tollot, an acquaintance of all the parties, in a letter to John Hall Stevenson, dated Bordeaux, le 8 Janvier, 1764, describing the onward course of his journey in France, writes Nous arrivames le lendemain à Montpellier où nous trouvames notre ami M. Sterne, sa femme, sa fille, et quelques autres Angloises: j'eu, je vous l'avoue, beaucoup de plaisir en revoiant le bon et agréable Tristram, qui me parut être tonjours à peu prez dans le même état où je l'avois laissé à Paris. Il avoit été assez longtemps à Toulouse, où il se seroit amusé sans sa femme qui le poursuivoit partout, et qui vouloit être de tout: ces dispositions dans cette bonne dame lui ont fait passer d'assez mauvais momens: il supporte tous ces désagrémens avec une patience d'ange. Son intention étoit retourner en Angleterre avec sa famille, mais il paroit que ces deux dames veulent passer encore un an en France pour finir Miss Sterne: pour lui, il est déterminé à quitter Montpellier dans le mois de Février et de venir à Paris. Sterne's apparent equanimity of temper in society was unhappily too frequently assumed under very inauspicious circumstances. A home not very agreeable, ill health, and disappointments in his hopes, had their effect on a temperament sufficiently susceptible of their baneful influence. M. Tollot, in a previous letter to John Hall Stevenson, dated Paris, April 4, 1762; after describing the violence of the wind and the rain, which impelled him to take divers glasses of Bordeaux to make himself gay, adds Cela me fait envier quelques fois les heureuses dispositions de notre ami Mr. Sterne; tous les objets sont couleur de rose pour cet heureux mortel, et ce qui se présente aux yeux des autres sous un aspecte triste et lugubre, prende aux siens une face gaye et riante: il ne poursuit que le plaisir, et il ne fait pas comme d'autres, qui quand ils l'ont atteint ne sçavent pas le plus souvent enjouier pour lui il boit le bole jusques à la dernierre goutte, et encore n'y a t'il pas moien de le désaltérer. VOL. V. toujours son couvert; et s'il veut, nous le ramenerons en nous serons; nous y aurions une bonne table où il aura Angleterre avec nous: comme ce parti m'a paru lui conveuir, je me flatte de le voir à Paris à la fin du mois prochain. Je voudrois bien que vous voulussiez être de la partie; ce seroit une grande augmentation de plaisir pour nous et pour lui, et nous pourrions nous y amuser pendant deux ou trois mois. Montpellier, Jan. 20, 1764, Sterne alludes to this deIn a letter to Foley, his banker at Paris, dated from returns to Toulouse, and purposes to spend the summer termination on the part of Mrs. Sterne. "My wife the church, in Yorkshire. We all live the longer, at at Bagnieres. I, on the contrary, go and visit my wife, least the happier, for having things our own way; this is my conjugal maxim. I own 'tis not the best of maxims, but I maintain 'tis not the worst." Later, in a letter to his daughter, from Paris, May 15, he parentally expresses himself, "by this time I your mother and yourself are fixed at Montauban." suppose, As usual, Sterne was at Paris the soul of gaiety, and practically in himself adopted the motto-vive la bagatelle. The time was however approaching for his appearance at Coxwould, and the first of these letters, not included in his works, was then sent to England. Paris, May 19, 1764. My dear Cosin,-We have been talking and projecting about setting out from this city of seductions every day this month, so that allowing me three weeks to ruminate upon yr letter, and this month passed in projections, and some other things of the same termination, I account for this sin of omission to you, without pretending to excuse itGod be merciful to me a sinner,'— -or sometimes, dear Sir, or dear Madame, be merciful, etc., just as the case happens, is all I have generally to say for what I do, and what I do not all which being premised, I have been weeks smitten with the tenderest passion that ever tender wight underwent. Iwish, dear cosin, thou couldest conceive, perhaps thou canst without my wishing it, how deliciously I canter'd away with it the first month, two up, two down, always upon my haunches along the streets from my hotel to hers, at first, once then twice, then three times a day, till at length, I was within an ace of setting up my hobby horse in her stable for good an all. I might as well, considering how the enemies of the Lord have blasphemed thereupon. The last three weeks we were every hour upon the doleful ditty of parting-and thou mayest conceive, dear cosin, how it alter'd my gait and air-for I went and came like any louden'd carl, and did nothing but mix tears, and Jouer les sentiments with her, from sunrising even to the setting of the same; and now she is gone to the South of France, с and to finish the comedie, I fell ill, and broke a vessel in my lungs, and half bled to death.a Voilà mon Histoire ! We are now setting out without let or hindrance, and shall be in London ye 29th, Dijs, Deabusque volentibus. Tollot sends a thousand kind greetings along with those of our family, to you. He has had a very bad spring of it, from a scoundril relaxation of his nervous system wch had God sent us warmer weather, he would have recovered more speedily; his journey wth its change of air, will I hope sett him up; why may we not all meet for a fortnight at Scarborough this summer? I wish you would say you would, and I would settle the party, before I leave London. Write a line to us at Thornhils', where I shall be whilst in town. We want sadly to see yr preachment-the report from me made yr heroc an inch higher. I see him every day, and without much, or indeed any precaution, as well by Ins as Outs. You will scarce believe I dined with him and Lord Tavistoc, t'other day, and with Lord Beauchamp, our ambassador's son, and him, etc., three days ago. He is eternally joyous and jockundiss.; and I think to a greater degree than in those days when he had more occasion. I pity him from my soul: he talks of decamping from home to sojourn in Italy, as soon as the take of his hôtel is expired,wch was for a year; I think Italy is not the place for him; but he has reasons wch I see not. On Thursday morning, we set out from foutre-land, tho' we ought not to abuse it-for we have lived, shag rag and bobtail, all of us, a most jolly nonsensical life of it; and so dear cosin Antony,d adieu, in full hopes on my side, that I shall spend many still more joyous deliriums with you, over many a pint of Burgundy-so be it, Superscribed. Angleterre. Yr affectte Cosin, L. STERNE. To John Hall Stevenson, Esqre., at Skelton Castle, near Guisbro', Yorkshire. He was probably in London at the close of May; the newspapers of June 5 announced his being then in town. On June 23, he arrived at York. Two years later, the ensuing letter was addressed by him to John Hall Stevenson, at Skelton Castle, near Guisborough. Coxwould, Dec. 17, 1766. My dear Cosin, I consider thee as a bank-note in the corner drawer of my bureau-I know it is there; I wish I did; and its value, tho' I seldome take a peep at it, if a comparison will excuse my idlenesses and neglects of all kind to thee-so be it, though I must take further shame, a The old story de novo. Writing to the same friend from Toulouse, on August 12, 1762, Sterne apprised him, "about a week or ten days before my wife arrived in Paris, I had the same accident I had at Cambridge, of breaking a vessel in my lungs." b Sterne failed in this expressed desire; he went alone to Scarborough, in September following. c Lawson Trotter, Mr. Stevenson's uncle, by the mother's side, the former possessor of Skelton Castle, but who as a friend of the Pretender, and an avowed Jacobite, fled from England in 1745, when the castle and estates devolved to his youngest sister Catherine, then married to Joseph Hall. Lawson Trotter was then living in exile. d A distinctive title assumed to himself, by John Hall Stevenson, in his Crazy Tales. and own I had not wrote now, but that I profited by the transit of a Craselite,e by my door, of whom I have learned all welcome accts of thee, that thou farest well, and art good liking; for my own part, I have had my menses thrice this month, which is twice too often, and am not altogether according to my feelings, by being so much, which I cannot avoid, at Lord Falconbridge]'s, who oppress me to death with civility. So Tristram goes on busilywhat I can find appetite to write, is so so. You never read such a chapter of evils from me-I am tormented to death and the devil by my Stillington inclosure; and am every hour threatened with a journey to Avignon, where Mrs. Sterne is very bad; and by a series of letters I've from Lydia, I suppose is going the way of us all. I want to know from yourself how you do- and you go on, I mean allum8-full gladly would I see you, but whilst I'm tied neck and heels as I am-'tis impracticable. Remember me sometimes in yr potations-bid Pantyh pray for me, when he prays for the Holy Catholic Church-present my compliments to Mrs. Ferguson and be in peace and charity with all mankind. And the blessing of God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost be with you, Amen. L. STERNE. P.S. Greet Hales, and his household. AMBRY.-I observe in your number for January a communication from a correspondent signing himself" A. J.” which commences, "The Ambry, scot., almerie, or almoric, a recess in churches for depositing the alms for the poor." Allow me to correct this false etymology; the " Ambry," means neither more nor less than a cupboard; "almorium," in the latinity of the middle ages, as the quotation which your correspondent gives from Ducange, indicates. The same word exists in modern French in the slightly altered shape of armoire. "Alms " is derived from the Greek "eleemosyna," through the French term aumône. The Ambry never was used in our medieval churches "to deposit the alms for the poor." It was used for depositing the vessels required for the Holy Communion. Hence its position in the chancel or side chapel, or else in the sacristy. F. S. A. |