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the family was spending the summer. Mrs. Louisa Shipley meanwhile never ceased to urge their return to England.
"Jan. 25, 1831. I am glad to hear so good an account of my two little great-nephews, but I should in* still more glad to see them. I do hope the next may hr a girl. If Francis liked England for the sake of being with old friends, lie might live here very comfortably, but if he will live as those who cun afford to make a show, for one year of parade in England he must IK* a banished man for many years. I wish lie would IK* as * domestic " at home as lie is abroad!"
In the summer of 1832 all the family went to Baden-Baden, to meet Lady Paul and her daughter Eleanor, Sir John, the FitzGeralds, and the Hank-heads. All the branches of Mrs. Hare's family lived in different houses, but they met daily for dinner, and were very merry. Before the autumn, my father returned to Italy, to the Villa ('iitadella near Lnn*a, which was taken for two months for Mrs, Hare's eon-finement, and there, on the Dili of October, my sister was born. She received the names of fc* Anne Prntiees Maria Louisa." " Do you moan your iroXvoji'i;/Ao? daughter to rival Venus in all her other qualities as well as in the multitude* of her names? or has your motive been rather to roeonmiend her to a greater number of patron saints?" wrote my unele Julius on hearing of her birth. Just before* this, Mrs. Shelley (widow of the poet and. one of her most intimate friends) had written to Mrs. Ilare; —
"Your accounts of your child (Knuu-w) give im» very great pleasure. Dear little* fellow, what ua annulment