Hampton Court ... Illustrated with forty-three drawings by Herbert ...

PRESENT CARE 231
observe that the papers of her distinguished husband
have recently found a home in the precincts.1
Lady Mornington's rooms were on the ground-floor
of the north-east corner of the Palace, looking upon a
charming little garden and across to the end of " Prince
Edward's lodgings." The garden in which she often
sat is still called Lady Mornington's garden. By the
arch from the cloister into the garden, at the right
hand, is the little nook to which the Duke of Wellington
gave the name of " purr corner " from its attraction
for the old ladies whoin his mother's day delighted
to sit and gossip there.
The Wellesley family affords a happy instance of the
pleasant domestic life which has sprung up and been
nourished in the Palace under the kindly and gracious
arrangements of the sovereign. Her Majesty has delighted
to reward public service in this most delicate
and appropriate fashion.
It is impossible to walk through the Palace or the
grounds without recognising the care which is now
taken of everything which may preserve or enhance its
historic interest. In the early days of July this year
(1896), Ihave seen some of the old statues which
formerly decorated the south front being replaced in
their old positions among the oranges which line the
walk in the summer.
It would be invidious to particularise the persons to
1 Four hundredvolumes of his official correspondence,&c, given
by his representatives,are in the British Museum; but the mass ofhis
private correspondencepassed into thehands of the late Mr. Alfred
Montgomery, wholeft it,Ibelieve,to Mr. Ernest Law.