Letters of Edward FitzGerald Volume II Part 43

{187} Tales of the Hall. Book X. (vol. vi. p. 246).

{188a} Carlyle's niece, now Mrs. Alexander Carlyle.

{188b} To his nephew Tom, meaning that he should outlive him. Letter of Jeremiah Markland (Bowyer's Miscellaneous Tracts, ed. Nichols, p. 521).

{189} That his boat was intentionally run down by a felucca.

{193} Among my Books. First series.

{196} June 10, 1876, was a Sat.u.r.day. Perhaps the letter was finished on Sunday.

{197} In 1851. Wordsworth's Letters are in the second volume, pp. 145- 173.

{198} Boswell's Johnson, VIII. 183.

{199} Haydon's Memoirs, III. 199.

{200} Archdeacon Groome, Rector of Monk Soham, Suffolk.

{202} Suffolk for 'donkey.'

{206} The Song of Brunanburh by Hallam Tennyson. Contemporary Review, Nov. 1876.

{208} In 1863 he wrote to George Crabbe,--

'I am now reading Clarissa Harlowe, for about the fifth time: I dare say you wouldn't have patience to read it once: indeed the first time is the most trying. It is a very wonderful, and quite original, and unique, Book: but almost intolerable from its Length and Sentimentality.'

{213} See p. 207.

{217} In Crabbe's Borough.

{219a} _Essais_, i. 18.

{219b} Lucr. iv. 76-80.

{220a} Formerly Professor of Sanskrit in King's College, London.

{220b} On English Adjectives in -able, with special reference to reliable, 1877.

{224} The Hon. J. R. Lowell, formerly United States Minister at the Courts of Madrid and St. James'.

{231} Chap. xlv.

{234} Melanges et Lettres.

{237} Memorials of Charlotte Williams-Wynn, p. 59.

{238} Criticisms, and Elucidations of Catullus, by H. A. J. Munro.

{239} Of Lamb's Life, mentioned in the following letter.

{240a} Book II. Song 2.

{240b} Endymion, i. 26, etc.

{240c} FitzGerald's memory was at fault here. The lines are from Tennyson's Gardener's Daughter.

{242} Charles Lamb. A calendar of his life in four pages.

{243} That to Bernard Barton about Mitford's vases, December 1, 1824.

{247} A calendar of Charles Lamb's Life.

{251} Not in the Essays but in the Colours of Good and Evil, 4: 'For as he sayth well, _Not to resolve is to resolve_.'

{252} See Lamb's Verses to Ayrton (Letters, ed. Ainger, II. 2).

{253} The Only Darter, A Suffolk Clergyman's Reminiscence. Written in the Suffolk Dialect by Archdeacon Groome under the name of John Dutfen.

{254} Wesley's Journal, 30 May 1786, and 22 May 1788.

{255a} Edwin Edwards.

{255b} Lowestoft.

{256a} These two lines are crossed out.

{256b} Tales of the Hall, Book XI. vol. vi., p. 284, quoted from memory.

{259a} This was never finished.

{259b} Lord Carnarvon.

{267} Tales of the Hall, Book X.

{270} A year before, FitzGerald wrote to Professor Cowell:

'I was trying yesterday to recover Gray's Elegy, as you had been doing down here at Christmas, with shut Eyes. But I had to return to the Book: and am far from perfect yet: though I leave out several Stanzas; reserving one of the most beautiful which Gray omitted. Plenty of faults still: but one doats on almost every line, every line being a Proverb now.'

{271} Tales of the Hall, Book XIV. (vol. vii. p. 89).

{272} Tales of the Hall, Book XIV. (vol. vii. p. 89).

{273} On Foot in Spain, by J. S. Campion, 1879.

{274} From Calderon's _Cada uno para si_, the seven lines beginning 'Bien dijo uno, que su planta' (Comedias, ed. Keil, iv. 731).

{277} Edwards died on Sept. 15. 'Those two and their little Dunwich in Summer were among my Pleasures; and will be, I doubt, among my Regrets.'