Note 121 — MADOX BROWN. SOME LETTERS FOLLOWED BY A DIARY. (continued 2)
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This description of Michael F. Halliday—as friendly and obliging a man as I have known—cannot be called good-natured, but I let it stand for what it is worth. He was not truly a sinecurist, but a clerk in the House of Lords; neither was he a gent, but a gentleman.