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A Baltimore Belle

A Baltimore Belle image
Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
September
Year
1871
Copyright
Public Domain
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- In our visión oí womcn, next in the order of tamo and fureign conquest como the fair daughters of tho houso of Cuton. Richard Caton, an Englishman of crodit and renown, ospoused Mary, daughter of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, and from that grafting of ohoico stocks threo duiiity rosos bloomed. Of these, tho faircst flower was Mariannei who was married at Annapolis to ltobort Patterson, brother of Madame Pattorson-Bonaparte. The oeremony was performed in the chapol in tho upper story of Mr. Carroll's houso, and the attendant festivitios were magnificent and prolonged. Threo dhanning belles from lJaltiinore wen the bridemaids, ono of thcm boing Miss Mary Chase, now the venerable Mrs. Barney. The brida] pair visited Europe, beariag letters of introduution from the British minister to bis fauiily, by wluuu they were reoeived with fiattering attent ions and prosented at court, whore Goorge IV., on beholding the fair Baltimorienne, gushed with adiaiintion. "Is it possilile," said he, " that the world could produce so beautiful a woinan f " Her husband lying shortly after their return to Maryland, Mrs. Patterson again went to England, where she married the marquis of Wellesley, then viccroy of Ireland. Sho was at one time first lady-inwaiting to Queon Adelaido at Windsor Castlo, who, in an autograph note to the marchionoss, wroto : " ïiis Majesty admires you much, you are so jiurely freo from court gallantry." Whereat, knowing the nice virtuo of the sailor king, wo smile "surkastikul." During her period of attondanco on the queen, it was tho babit of tho ïnarchionoss to rise at six, repair to early mass, and ifterward to visit the poor and afïlicted. She was voted the most beautiful womao it tho court ot' St. James. " I av her," iays my entortaining guido, " wliile slïe was residing at St. John's Lodgo, Eegent's Square. She was then superbly handiome, and I thought her portrait by 8ir rhoinas Lawienoe, at her father's house m Daltimore, did less thim justiee to her sharmt. A singular graos adomed her mplest inovementB, and her loveliness of

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