Gents Mag 1840 part 2 p.279

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	Gentleman's Magazine 1840 part 2 p.279 folio volumes that she collected of her family documents, and that are now preserved in Appleby Castle. (preface p.xii.) Gilpin, in his Tour to the Lakes, ii. 191, says he had been informed that "the late Earl of Thanet destroyed" her Journal, "as it contained many severe remarks on several characters of those times, which the earl supposed might give offence to their families." But it was about the same time that Mr. Seward published his extracts. We have heard that the MS. was mutilated, and for a somewhat different though equally foolish reason, that is to say, on the score of some coarsenesses, repugnant to modern delicacy; but that it was not wholly destroyed. There can be no question that a judicious selection from all that remains of her memoirs would form a valuable addition to our materials of domestic history. As Bishop Rainbow himself remarked, the Countess of Pembroke, Dorset, and Montgomery is a subject "fitter for a History than a Sermon."

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