Letters of Edward FitzGerald Volume II Part 44

So he wrote me at the end of 1877.

{280a} C. K. of Punch.

{280b} Now in my possession.

{281} In the Atlantic Monthly for May 1880, 'A Neglected Poet,' by G. E.

Woodberry.

{282} Tales of the Hall, Book IV. vol. vi. p. 71.

{283} Tales of the Hall, Book III. vol. vi. p. 61.

{285a} From the Life of Lord Houghton, by Mr. Wemyss Reid, ii. 406, and by his kind permission inserted here.

{285b} Printed 1881.

{286} FitzGerald was reading Lord Seaton's Regiment (the 52nd Light Infantry) at the Battle of Waterloo, by the Rev. W. Leeke, who as Ensign Leeke carried the colours of the regiment on the 18th of June.

{290} Edwin Edwards.

{293} A sheltered path in the field next his garden, where he walked for hours together.

{302} Spedding died on March 9.

{303} The death of Spedding.

{308a} Now (1893) the Dowager Lady Tennyson.

{308b} See p. 219.

{309} Printed in the Life of Archdeacon Allen, by Prebendary Grier, pp.

35-37.

{311} In Macmillan's Magazine for April 1881.

{313} Mrs. Kemble was at Leamington.

{317} Euphranor.

{322} Nearly two years before, 21st March 1880, Fitzgerald wrote to Professor Cowell: 'My dear Donne (who also was one object of my going) seemed to me feebler in Body and Mind than when I saw him in October: I need not say, the same Gentleman. Mrs. Kemble says that he, more than any one she has known, is the man to do what Boccaccio's Hero of the Falcon did.' This was said, Mrs. Kemble informs me, by her sister Mrs.

Sartoris.

{323} Keene recommended FitzGerald to read Roger North's Memoir of Music. 'You will see in North,' he says, 'that Old Rowley was a bit of a musician and sang "a plump Ba.s.s." Can't you hear him?' His question to me was about the meaning of the word 'fastously,' which is not a musical term, but described the conduct of an Italian violinist, Nicolai Matteis, who gave himself airs, 'and behaved fastously' or haughtily. Barrow uses both 'fastuous' and 'fastuously.'

{324a} The Whole Body of Cookery Dissected, published in 1682.

{324b} A volume of 17th century pamphlets, containing among others Howell's Dodona's Grove, given me by Archdeacon Groome.

{326} Edward Marlborough FitzGerald.

{327} Euphranor, referred to in the following letters.

{328} Now (1893) Lord Tennyson.

{330a} Virgil's Garden, printed in Temple Bar for April, 1882.

{330b} Longfellow died 26th March, and Emerson 27th April, 1882.

{337} 20 June, 1882.

{342} A newspaper cutting: 'ALDEBURGH. THE STORM. On Tuesday evening the tide ran over the Promenade, in many places the river and sea meeting. The cattle are all sent inland, and all the houses at Slaughden are evacuated.'