MS Mrs Caroline Fairclough/29
My dear Arthur
Humbert was the name of the Dolphin.1 I did not know I had put it ambiguously. There was a Dauphin in Auvergne and in Montpensier, till the last turned into a Duke. They did bear dolphins, but I don’t think anyone knows whether the arms came from the dolphin or the dolphin from the title. I will either put in the name Humbert or join Count-dauphin with a hyphen in the proof to save confusions. The usual plan of people is to say that the invasion of England by Lewis the Lion was by the Dauphin. Do you remember the answer whose I can’t remember to the question which was greatest and have precedence the Prince of Wales or the Dauphin ‘Quantum Delphin balæna Britannica major[‘] My Latin like Queen Elizabeth’s is rusty, and I can’t remember which case quantum governs
I condole with Mrs Butler, I think that first going to school makes one of the great wrenches of life2
yours sincerely
C M Yonge