John Leech and other papers

1 1 8 Horcz Subseciva.
and winning face, sagacious and sincere, that kindly,
cheery voice, that rich and quiet laugh, that mingled
sense and sensibility, which all met, and still, to our
happiness, meet in her, who, with all her gifts and
keen perception of the odd, and power of embodying
it, never gratified her consciousness of these powers,
or ever played
' Her quips and cranks and wanton wiles,'
so as to give pain to any human being.
The title of this memorial is Mystifications, and in
the opening letter to her dear kinswoman and life-
long friend, Mrs. Gillies, widow of Lord Gillies, she
thus tells her story : —
Duntrune, April 1859.
MY DEAREST MRS. GILLIES,
To you and the friends who have
partaken in these l Mystifications,' I dedicate this little
volume, trusting, that after a silence of forty years, its
donald. Their only son, an infant, died December 1689.
David Graham, his brother, fought at Killiecrankie, and was
outlawed in 1690 — died without issue — when the representation
of the family devolved on his cousin, David Graham of Dun-
trune. Alexander Graham of Duntrune died 1782 ; and on
the demise of his last surviving son, Alexander, in 1804, the
property was inherited equally by his four surviving sisters,
Anne, Amelia, Clementina, and Alison. Amelia was my
mother.
' Yours ever,
' CLEM. STIRLING GRAHAM.
' Duntrune, \^ih November i860.'