The Remarkable Lushington Family

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The Remarkable

Lushington Family

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11. On 6 April 1812 Joanna Baillie wrote to (Sir) Walter Scott, “We have a most agreeable neighbour here, a great favourite of my sisters & mine, and being a Borderer, than English one, claiming (tho’ unknown) some little favour from you: Mr Carr, a learned Barrister, at the head of the excise office.” J.B. Slagle (ed.) The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999).

12. On 9 February 1797, Robert Southey recorded a meeting “At the Chapter Coffee House to which I accompanied Carr and Barbauld.” Southey’s Common-Place Book: Fourth Series, ed. J.W. Warteer (Reeves and Turner, 1876), p. 39. In a letter to Mary Baker in 1811 Southey wrote, “Mrs Carr is a clever woman. She knows me but very little—I once dined at her house,—some fourteen or fifteen years ago, & have met once or twice since.” Ian Packer and Lynda Pratt (eds.) The Collected Letters of Robert Southey, Part Four: 1810–1815. Romantic Circles website.

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