facts, obtained from her only surviving brother, M. 0. Davidson, Esq., of Westchester County, in relation to other members of the Davidson family—her mother and a brother, both now deceased—who possessed in no small degree the divine art of clothing their thoughts in the garb of poesy.
Of Mrs. Davidson we need only say that she was a woman of elegant culture and refinement, gifted with a superior mind, and possessing great beauty of face and figure. For many years previous to her death, which occurred in 1844, she had been in delicate health, and was at times a confirmed invalid. Between the mother and her two gifted daughters the most perfect sympathy of tastes, feelings, and pursuits existed. Their hearts and minds were indissolubly twined together, and a more beautiful relationship of both a maternal and filial character never existed.
It was to Mrs. Davidson that Mrs. Caroline Southey, the wife of the laureate, addressed the following touching lines, written at Greta Hall, Keswick, Cumberland, England, and bearing date April 10th, 1842:—
Was ever glory, ever grief like thine,
Since hers, the mother of the Man divine,
The perfect One—the Crowned—the Crucified?
Wonder and joy, high hopes and chastened pride
