ABSTRACT
At the time of the fire at Percy-Hall, a painted glass window in the passage …. we should say the gallery …. leading to the study had been destroyed. - Old Martha, whose life Caroline had saved, had a son, who possessed some talents as a painter, and who had learnt the art of painting on glass. He had been early in his life assisted by the Percy family, and desirous to offer some small testimony of his gratitude, he begged permission to paint a new window for the gallery. - He chose for his subject the fire, and the moment when Caroline was assisting his decrepit mother down the dangerous staircase. - The painting was finished a and put up on Caroline’s birthday, when she had just attained her eighteenth year. This was the only circumstance / worth recording, which the biographer can find noted in the family annals at this period. - In this dearth of events may we take the liberty of introducing, according to the fashion of modern biography, a few private letters. They are written by persons, of whom the reader as yet knows nothing, - Mr Percy’s second and third sons, Alfred and Erasmus. Alfred was a barrister; Erasmus a physician; they were both at this time in London, just commencing their professional career. - Their characters….. but let their characters speak for themselves in their letters, else neither their letters nor their characters can be worth attention. b
