Charles Hamilton Aide

Charles Hamilton Aide (sometimes written as Aidé or Aïdé; 4 November 1826 – 13 December 1906) was "for many years a conspicuous figure in London literary society, a writer of novels, songs and dramas of considerable merit and popularity, and a skillful amateur artist".

[4] After her death in 1875, he then "took rooms at Queen Anne's Gate where he hosted a celebrated salon which drew 'the chief figures in the social and artistic world of France as well as England'".

His entry in the Dictionary of National Biography sets forth that Aide was: [A] man of versatile accomplishments and with abundant social gifts, who devoted himself with equal success to society, music, art, and literature.'

He wrote several volumes of poetry, composed songs, exhibited the sketches made on his regular foreign travels at various galleries.

[6]Aide left his papers to American author Morton Fullerton, then a correspondent for The Times in their Paris office, with open-ended instructions "to manipulate, to publish, or to burn as you think fit".