Ancestry 3 appointed lieutenant-colonel. In the histori- cal sketch entitled An Old Scotch Brigade, the M'Key regiment is depicted as having fought with great distinction under the Swe- dish banner. Fredrik Key, great-grandson of James M'Key, district judge, and, like his fore- father, owner of an estate in Smaland, married the widow of Captain J. A. Nordenflycht, the nephew of the poet Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht, himself similarly gifted. Ellen Key has jokingly said that "this case seems to verify the assertion that a widow's children by a later marriage may resemble the former husband, since first in C. F. Key, my great- grandfather, son of this couple, did the strong cesthetic and literary interest show itself in our branch of the famity. " But this interest may also have come from another source. For the widow Nordenflycht, whose maiden name was Louisa Elertz (she was German and came from Stralsund), was herself a talented woman. With no knowledge of any connection in the sense above alluded to, Oscar Levertin, in his brilliant essay on Hedvig Charlotta Norden- flycht (17 1 8-1 763), Sweden's first woman poet, has given Ellen Key an important