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NOTES ON BOOKS:-Keats's Poems of 1820-Congregational Historical Society Transactions'-Hume Brown's 'History of Scotland'-The Churchyard Scribe'-Magazines and Reviews. Notices to Correspondents. Notes. MARIA JANE JEWSBURY IN CEYLON AND INDIA. THE notice of Miss M. J. Jewsbury in the Dict. of Nat. Biog.' says :— "On 1 Aug., 1832, she married, at Penegroes, Montgomeryshire, the Rev. William Kew Fletcher, a chaplain in the East India Company's service, with whom she sailed for Bombay. She died fourteen months later, on 4 Oct., 1833, at Poonah, a victim to cholera. Some extracts from the journal of her voyage to and residence in India are given in Espinasse's 'Lancashire Worthies."" It is in the Second Series (1877) of the 'Lancashire Worthies,' pp. 330-37, that Espinasse deals with Mrs. Fletcher's voyage to and brief residence in India. Although, strangely, there is no reference, editorial or otherwise, in any of the intervening issues of The Colombo Journal, to the gifted writer, she herself has left on record in beautiful verse her impressions of the island. My father, who arrived in Ceylon in 1837, relates in some reminiscences printed in 1886 (Ceylon in 1837-46,' p. 15) that during her brief sojourn in the island Mrs. Fletcher stayed under the hospitable roof of the Rev. Benjamin Bailey (himself the writer of some little books of verse), where she wrote what is perhaps the most exquisite poem that has ever been penned respecting Ceylon. Mrs. Fletcher apparently presented the manuscript to her host, who only some seven months later seems to have sent it to The Colombo Journal, where it was printed in the supplement to the issue of 7 Sept., 1833, in the midst of extracts of political news, and without a single line calling attention to it. poem is as follows: THE EDEN OF THE SEA. (Written at Ceylon.) A dream! a dream! our billowy home Books for to-morrow: this calm bower I know that creatures strange and fierce The The squirrel at his morning meal You see him through its ribs of green; These cocoa trees-not fair in woods, Yet dowered with wealth of uses rare, Ceylon! Ceylon! 'tis naught to me By Hebrew king, or Grecian bold; I follow Sinbad on the shore. Yet these, the least of all thy wealth, were most unfavourable, according to the extracts from her diary printed by Mr. Espinasse; but after a couple of months she seems to have become more reconciled to her lot, and to have ceased spending her time, as she quaintly puts it, in conjugating the verb I hate India,' in every mood, form, tense, and person." But just as Mrs. Fletcher had become accustomed to barren and desolate Karnai (she had never visited Dapoli), her husband was ordered to Sholapur; and off the couple set, climbing the steep ascent to Mahābleshwar, where they were at the beginning of May, and descending on the other side of the ghat to Sātāra, which was reached on the 6th of the same month. Here the Fletchers rested a month, and then resumed their journey, along the road that runs almost due west and east between Sātāra and Sholapur. "On the 10th of June," says Mr. Espinasse, "the travellers were at Mussoor-Pelonne' (?) where the Journal contains the ominous jotting:-‘I had an attack of semi-semi-cholera, only demi-semi.' ” 'Mussoor-Pelonne looks like a combination of the names of the two The word "late" here does not, of course, towns Mhaswad and Piliw (or perhaps refer to the writer's death, which took | Bhalawani), which would be traversed on place less than a month after the appearance of the poem; but its use seems almost like a presage of doom. Were India not where I must wend, M. J. FLETCHER (late Miss Jewsbury). I can find no further reference of any kind in The Colombo Journal to the Fletchers; but, according to Mr. Espinasse, they arrived at Bombay in March, 1833. This writer 66 the way to Sholapur. The Fletchers reached their destination on 17 June, to find drought-famine sweeping off the natives"; and after a terrible period of three months the unfortunate couple were once more on the march, Mr. Fletcher having broken down in health, and been allowed, under medical certificate, to return to Karnai. But Mrs. Fletcher, at any rate, was fated never again to see that place of tombs. |