Letters of Edward FitzGerald Volume I Part 32

{213} The Rev. J. T. Nottidge of Ipswich died 21 Jan. 1847.

{220} [The last two words are crossed out.--W. A. W.]

{222} Francis Duncan, rector of West Chelborough.

{225} Morris Moore's letters on the Abuses of the National Gallery were addressed to The Times at the end of 1846 and the beginning of 1847 with the signature 'Verax.' They were collected and published in a pamphlet by Pickering in 1847.

{227} See Carlyle's Cromwell (ed. I), i. 193.

{230a} Pliny, Ep. III. 21.

{230b} In a subsequent letter, written when this was supposed to be lost, he says, 'I liked all your quotations, and wish to read Busbequius; whose name would become an owl.'

{231} Lord Hatherley.

{232} In the People's Journal, ed. Saunders, iv. 355-358.

{233} iv. 104.

{235} 26 Feb. 1848.

{238} Dombey and Son.

{240} h.e.l.lenica, II. i. 25.

{241} Evenings with a Reviewer.

{242} A lithograph of the portrait by Laurence.

{243} Bernard Barton died 19 Feb. 1849.

{247} Grandson of the poet, afterwards Rector of Merton, near Walton, Norfolk.

{251} No one but FitzGerald in humorous self-depreciation would apply such an epithet to this delightful piece of biography.

{252a} Selections from the Poems and Letters of Bernard Barton.

{252b} Of course this is not intended to be taken quite seriously. It is to be remembered that FitzGerald also said of them, 'There are many verses whose melody will linger in the ear, and many images that will abide in the memory. Such surely are those of men's hearts brightening up at Christmas "like a fire new-stirred"--of the stream that leaps along over the pebbles "like happy hearts by holiday made light"--of the solitary tomb showing from afar "like a lamb in the meadow," etc.'

{254a} Diogenes and his Lantern.

{254b} Old Lady Lambert.

{261} E. B. Cowell.

{262a} The Rev. George Crabbe, son of the Poet, and Vicar of Bredfield.

{262b} Bramford, near Ipswich.

{265} Charles Childs.

{266} Containing an article by Spedding on Euphranor.

{267a} The Cowells had gone to live in Oxford.

{267b} Euphranor.

{268} Azael the Prodigal, adapted from Scribe and Auber's L'Enfant Prodigue.

{272} On the English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century

{273} To Polonius.

{274} To visit his friend John Allen.

{275} Esmond.

{282} Six Dramas from Calderon.

{283a} Chief Justice.

{283b} Baron Parke, afterwards Lord Wensleydale.

{284} This conjecture was correct. See p. 307.

{285a} The Gardener and the Nightingale in Sir W. Jones's Persian Grammar.

{285b} Vicarage.

{287a} Farlingay Hall, sometimes called Farthing Cake Hall.

{287b} Mrs. De Soyres.

{291} Not Harry, but Franklin Lus.h.i.+ngton in Points of War.

{292a} It was in the autumn of 1791.

{292b} From Cowley's translation of Anacreon.

{292c} P. 148.

{302a} This with a wider margin, or in some other way distinguishable from the rest of the inscription.

{302b} Some volumes of which C. had brought down to Suffolk, being then engaged with his Frederick II. _MS. note by FitzGerald_.

{304} Salaman and Absal.

{307} In another letter written about the same time he says, 'The letter to Major Price at the beginning is worth any Money, and almost any Love!'