Kitchener's Cook's Oracle, 89; miniature of her as Urania, 96, 99, 100,
101, 106, 146
Kemble (Fanny), her laws of correspondence, 2; her daughter's marriage,
3; her Memoirs, 29; in America, 36, 46; her article 'On the Stage' in the
Cornhill Magazine, 53, 78, 227; her letter about Macready, 57; her
photograph, 61; as Louisa of Savoy, 73; writes her 'Old Woman's Gossip'
in the Atlantic Monthly, 84, 92; letter from her to the Editor, 93;
omitted passage from her 'Gossip,' 93-94; uses a type-writer, 94; her
opinion of Portia, 95, 124; on Goethe and Portia, 123; end of her
'Gossip,' 125, 129; her Records of a Girlhood, 186; her favourite
Colours, 197; her portrait by Sir T. Lawrence, 210; her Records of Later
Life, 227, 228
Kemble (Henry), Mrs. Kemble's brother, 58, 109
Kemble (Henry), Mrs. Kemble's nephew, 225
Kemble (John Mitchell), 120, 153, 159
Kemble (J. P.), 179, 183; portrait of him as OEdipus, 183, 210; Plays
revised by him, 220
Kerrich (Edmund), E. F.G.'s nephew, 129, 172
La Fontaine, 66
Laurence (S.), copies Pickersgill's portrait of Crabbe, 39; letter from,
90
Leigh (the Hon. Mrs.), Mrs. Kemble's daughter, 161; her marriage, 3
L'Hopital (Chancellor), quoted, 191
Little Grange, first named, 42
Lowell (J. R.), 'Among my Books,' 97, 119, 135; his Odes, 120, 122;
letter from, 136; his coming to England as Minister of the United States,
174; illness of his wife, 174, 184, 186, 192
Lynn (Mary), 191, 252, 253
Macbeth quoted, 43, 68; French opera by Chelard, acted at Dublin, 81
Macready (W. C,), 27; his Memoirs edited by Sir W. F. Pollock, 38, 44,
50, 52, 68, 70, 98, 102; his Macbeth, 44, 57, 68; plays Henry IV., 58;
reads Mrs. Kemble's English Tragedy, 72
Malkin (Arthur), 110, 132, 213
Malkin (Dr. B. H.), Master of Bury School, 94; Crabbe a favourite with
him, 213
Marjorie Fleming, 252
Marot (Clement), quoted, 23
Matthews (Charles), his Memoir, 173
Merivale (Charles), Dean of Ely, 195, 218
Montaigne, 103, 104, 105, 117
Musset (Alfred de), Memoir of, 138; loves to read Clarissa Harlowe, 138
Napoleon, saying of, 218
Naseby, proposed monument at, 17, 27
Norton (C. E), 19, 97, 119, 123, 135, 151, 180, 183, 205, 209, 246, 256
OEdipus, by Dryden and Lee, 229
Oleander, 251
Oliphant (Mrs.), on Carlyle, 218, 220; on Mrs. Carlyle, 259
Oriole, 46
Pasta, saying of, 53
Pasta, in Medea, 181, 200
Pasteur (Le Bon), 30, 33
Peacock (E.), Headlong Hall quoted, 40
Piccolomini, 11
Pigott (E. F. S.), succeeds W. B. Donne, 50
Piozzi (Mrs.), Memoirs of, 46
Pollock (Sir W. F ), visits E. F.G., 15; edits Macready's Memoirs, 38,
44; letter from, 55; visits Carlyle, 110
Portia, 95, 124
Quixote (Don), 41, 108, 155, 182; must be read in Spanish, 114, 117
Ritchie (Mrs.), Miss Thackeray, 135
Rossi in Hamlet, 107
Rousseau on stage decoration, 110
Santley (Mrs.), 111
Sartoris (Edward), 192, 203
Sartoris (Greville), death of, 38
Sartoris (Mrs.), Mrs. Kemble's sister, 38; her illness, 140, 149; and
death, 154; her Medusa and other Tales, 203
Scott (Sir Walter), his indifference to fame, 116; the easy movement of
his stories, 130; Barry Cornwall's saying of him, 131; his Kenilworth,
145; the Fortunes of Nigel, 228, 231; Marjorie Fleming, 252; The Pirate,
261
Sevigne (Madame de), 73, 103, 105, 137, 184, 186, 188, 222; her Rochers,
105, 184; not shown to visitors, 188; list of her dramatis personae, 125;
quoted, 190, 217
Shakespeare, edited by Clark and Wright, 68, 69
Shakespeare, 69
Shakespeare's predecessors, 223
Siddons (Mrs.), 46, 71, 183; her portrait by Sir T. Lawrence, 81; article
on her in the Nineteenth Century, 134; in Winter's Tale, 204
Skeat (Professor), his Inaugural Lecture, 153
Southey's Correspondence with Caroline Bowles, 261
Spanish Tragedy (The), scene from, 62
Spedding (James), is finishing his Life and Letters of Bacon, 27; has
finished them, 42, 51: his note on Antony and Cleopatra, 43, 45;
emendation of Shakespeare, 45; paper on Richard III., 74; his opinion of
Irving's Hamlet, 74; and Miss Ellen Terry's Portia, 74, 77; will not see
Salvini in Othello, 74; on The Merchant of Venice, 77, 80, 176, 201; the
Latest Theory about Bacon, 111; Shakespeare Notes, 189; his Preface to
Charles Tennyson Turner's Sonnets, 197; his accident, 212; and death,
214; his Evenings with a Reviewer, 233: Mrs. Cameron's photograph of him,
250
Stephen (Leslie), 58; his 'Hours in a Library,' 118
Taylor (Tom), 166, 193; his death, 192; his Memoir of Haydon, 194
Tennyson (A.), in Burns's country, 22; changes his publisher, 37; his
Queen Mary, 77; mentioned, 82, 113, 160, 193, 228, 239; his Mary Tudor,
107, 109; visits E. F.G. at Woodbridge, 113, 114; the attack on him in
the Quarterly, 116; his Harold, 122; portrait of him, 134; his saying of
Clarissa Harlow, 138; of Crabbe's portrait by Pickersgill, 151; used to
repeat Clerke Saunders and Helen of Kirkconnel, 164; The Falcon, 169; The
Cup, 206, 208; his saying of Lycidas, 178; his eyes, 183; Ballads and
other Poems, 201; with E. F.G. at Mirehouse, 214; The Promise of May,
251, 253
Tennyson (Frederick), visits E. F.G., 16; his saying of blindness, 183;
his poems, 197
Tennyson (Hallam, now Lord), 114, 228, 239, 260
Tennyson (Lionel), 98; his marriage, 135
Terry (Miss Ellen), as Portia, 74, 77; Tom Taylor's opinion of her, 95
Thackeray (Minnie), death of, 90
Thackeray (Miss), 99; her Old Kensington, 13, 15, 39; meets E. F.G. at
the Royal Academy, 16; her Village on the Cliff, 38; on Madame de
Sevigne, 227; on Miss Edgeworth, 250
Thackeray (W. M.), 38, 120; not the author of a Tragedy, 51; his Drawings
published, 'The Orphan of Pimlico,' etc., 91; his pen and ink drawing of
Mrs. Kemble as Louisa of Savoy, 73
Thurtell, the murderer, 152
Tichborne trial, 28, 36
Tieck, 'an Eyewitness of John Kemble' in The Nineteenth Century, 179, 183
Trench (Archbishop), his Translation of Calderon, 185; E. F.G. sends him
his Crabbe, 185
Tunbridge Wells, 57
Turner (Charles Tennyson), his Sonnets, 151, 197
'Twalmley' ('the Great'), 75, 102, 116
Two Noble Kinsmen (The), 221
Urania, 146
Wade (T.), author of the Jew of Aragon, 120
Wainewright (T. G.), 90
Wales (Prince of), Thanksgiving service for his recovery, 10
Ward (John), Vicar of Stratford on Avon, his diary, 263
Wesley (John), his Journal one of E. F.G.'s hobbies, 28, 186
Whalley (Dr.), his reading of a passage in Macbeth, 46
Wilkinson (Mrs.), E. F.G.'s sister, 112, 122, 169, 225
Wilson (H. Schutz), 232, 233, 235
Wister (Mrs.), Mrs. Kemble's daughter, 6, 36, 252, 254
Woodberry (G. E.), his article on Crabbe, 180
Wylie (W. H.), on Thomas Carlyle, 237
Footnotes:
{3a} Mrs. Kemble's daughter, Frances Butler, was married to the Hon. and
Rev. James Wentworth Leigh, now Dean of Hereford, 29th June 1871.
{3b} See 'Letters,' ii. 126.
{6} Fitzgerald's Lives of the Kembles was reviewed in the _Athenaeum_,
12th August 1871, and the 'Memoirs of Mr. Harness,' 28th October.
{7} Macbeth, ii. 2, 21.
{9} In writing to Sir Frederick Pollock on November 17th, 1871,
FitzGerald says:--
'The Game-dealer here telling me that he has some very good Pheasants,
I have told him to send you a Brace--to go in company with Braces to
Carlyle, and Mrs. Kemble. This will, you may think, necessitate your
writing a Reply of Thanks before your usual time of writing: but don't
do that:--only write to me now in case the Pheasants don't reach you;
I know you will thank me for them, whether they reach you or not; and
so you can defer writing so much till you happen next upon an idle
moment which you may think as well devoted to me; you being the only
man, except Donne, who cares to trouble himself with a gratuitous
letter to one who really does not deserve it.
'Donne, you know, is pleased with Everybody, and with Everything that
Anybody does for him. You must take his Praises of Woodbridge with
this grain of Salt to season them. It may seem odd to you at
first--but not perhaps on reflection--that I feel more--nervous, I may
say--at the prospect of meeting with an old Friend, after all these
years, than of any indifferent Acquaintance. I feel it the less with
Donne, for the reason aforesaid--why should I not feel it with you who
have given so many tokens since our last meeting that you are well
willing to take me as I am? If one is, indeed, by Letter what one is
in person.--I always tell Donne not to come out of his way here--he
says he takes me in the course of a Visit to some East-Anglian
kinsmen. Have you ever any such reason?--Well; if you have no better
reason than that of really wishing to see me, for better or worse, in
my home, come--some Spring or Summer day, when my Home at any rate is
pleasant. This all sounds mock-modesty; but it is not; as I can't
read Books, Plays, Pictures, etc. and don't see People, I feel, when a
Man comes, that I have all to ask and nothing to tell; and one doesn't
like to make a Pump of a Friend.'
{10a} At the Royal Institution, on 'The Theatre in Shakespeare's Time.'
The series consisted of six lectures, which were delivered from 20th
January to 24th February 1872. On 18th February 1872, Mrs. Kemble wrote:
'My dear old friend Donne is lecturing on Shakespeare, and I have heard
him these last two times. He is looking ill and feeble, and I should
like to carry him off too, out of the reach of his too many and too heavy
cares.'--'Further Records,' ii. 253.
{10b} 27th February, 1872, for the recovery of the Prince of Wales.
{10c} Mr. Jenney, the owner of Bredfield House, where FitzGerald was
born. See 'Letters,' i. 64.
{11} H. F. Chorley died 16th February 1872.
{13a} Perhaps Widmore, near Bromley. See 'Further Records,' ii. 253.
{13b} 'Old Kensington,' the first number of which appeared in the
_Cornhill Magazine_ for April 1872.
{15} He came May 18th, 1872, the day before Whitsunday.
{16a} F. T. came August 1st, 1872.
{16b} See 'Letters,' ii. 142-3.
{19a} Miss Harriet St. Leger.
{19b} April 14th, 1873. See 'Letters,' ii. 154.
{23a} Probably the piece beginning--
'On plante des pommiers es bords
Des cimitieres, pres des morts, &c
Olivier Basselin ('Vaux-de-Vire,' ed Jacob, 1858, xv. p. 28)
On Oct 13th, 1879, FitzGerald wrote of a copy of Olivier (ed. Du Bois,
1821) which he had sent by me to Professor Cowell: "If Cowell does not
care for Olivier--the dear Phantom!--pray do you keep him. Read a little
piece--the two first Stanzas--beginning 'Dieu garde de deshonneur,' p.
184--quite beautiful to me; though not classed as Olivier's. Also 'Royne
des Flours, &c,' p. 160. These are things that Beranger could not reach
with all his Art; but Burns could without it."
{23b} De Damoyselle Anne de Marle (Marot, 'Cimetiere,' xiv ):--
'Lors sans viser au lieu dont elle vint,
Et desprisant la gloire que l'on a
En ce bas monde, icelle Anne ordonna,
Que son corps fust entre les pauures mys
En cette fosse. Or prions, chers amys,
Que l'ame soit entre les pauures mise,
Qui bien heureux sont chantez en l'Eglise.'
{25} On March 30, 1873, FitzGerald wrote to Sir Frederick Pollock:--
"At the beginning of this year I submitted to be Photo'ed at last--for
many Nieces, and a few old Friends--I must think that you are an old
Friend as well as a very kind and constant one; and so I don't like
not to send you what I have sent others.--The Artist who took me, took
(as he always does) three several Views of one's Face: but the third
View (looking full-faced) got blurred by my blinking at the Light: so
only these two were reproduced--I shouldn't know that either was meant
for [me]: nor, I think, would any one else, if not told: but the Truth-
telling Sun somehow did them; and as he acted so handsomely by me, I
take courage to distribute them to those who have a regard for me, and
will naturally like to have so favourable a Version of one's Outward
Aspect to remember one by. I should not have sent them if they had
been otherwise. The up-looking one I call 'The Statesman,' quite
ready to be called to the Helm of Affairs: the Down-looking one I call
The Philosopher. Will you take which you like? And when next old
Spedding comes your way, give him the other (he won't care which) with
my Love. I only don't write to him because my doing so would impose
on his Conscience an Answer--which would torment him for some little
while. I do not love him the less: and believe all the while that he
not the less regards me."
Again on May 5, he wrote: "I think I shall have a word about M[acready]
from Mrs. Kemble, with whom I have been corresponding a little since her
return to England. She has lately been staying with her Son in Law, Mr.
Leigh (?), at Stoneleigh Vicarage, near Kenilworth. In the Autumn she
says she will go to America, never to return to England. But I tell her
she _will_ return. She is to sit for her Photo at my express desire, and
I have given her Instructions _how_ to sit, derived from my own
successful Experience. One rule is to sit--in a dirty Shirt--(to avoid
dangerous White) and another is, not to sit on a Sunshiny Day: which we
must leave to the Young.
"By the by, I sent old Spedding my own lovely Photo (_the Statesman_)
which he has acknowledged in Autograph. He tells me that he begins to
'smell Land' with his Bacon."
{28a} See 'Letters,' ii. 165-7.
{28b} See letter of April 22nd, 1873.
{30} Shakespeare, Ant. & Cl., v. 2, line 6:--
'Which shackles accidents, and bolts up change.'
{31} In his 'Half Hours with the Worst Authors' FitzGerald has
transcribed 'Le Bon Pasteur,' which consists of five stanzas of eight
lines each, beginning:--
'Bons habitans de ce Village,
Pretez l'oreille un moment,' &c.
Each stanza ends:--
'Et le bon Dieu vous benira.'
He adds: 'One of the pleasantest remembrances of France is, having heard
this sung to a Barrel-organ, and chorus'd by the Hearers (who had bought
the Song-books) one fine Evening on the Paris Boulevards, June: 1830.'
{34a} Haydon entered these verses in his Diary for May, 1846: 'The
struggle is severe, for myself I care not, but for her so dear to me I
feel. It presses on her mind, and in a moment of pain, she wrote the
following simple bit of feeling to Frederick, who is in South America, on
Board _The Grecian_.' There are seven stanzas in the original, but
FitzGerald has omitted in his transcript the third and fourth and
slightly altered one or two of the lines. He called them 'A poor
Mother's Verses.'
{34b} See 'Letters,' ii. 280.
{37} Burns, quoted from memory as usual. See Globe Edition, p. 214; ed.
Cunningham, iv. 293.
{38} Greville Sartoris was killed by a fall from his horse, not in the
hunting-field, 23 Oct. 1873.
{39} 'Rage' in the original. See Tales of the Hall, Book XII. Sir Owen
Dale.
{40} Quoting from Peacock's 'Headlong Hall':--
'Nature had but little clay
Like that of which she moulded him.'
See 'Letters,' i. 75, note.
{42} 18 April 1874. Professor Hiram Corson endeavoured to maintain the
correctness of the reading of the Folios in Antony and Cleopatra, v. 2.
86-88:
'For his Bounty,
There was no winter in 't. An _Anthony_ it was,
That grew the more by reaping.'
Spedding admirably defended Theobald's certain emendation of 'autumn' for
'Anthony.'
{43} These lines are not to be found in Crabbe, so far as I can
ascertain, but they appear to be a transformation of two which occur in
the Parish Register, Part II., in the story of Phebe Dawson (Works, ii.
183):
'Friend of distress! The mourner feels thy aid;
She cannot pay thee, but thou wilt be paid.'
They had taken possession of FitzGerald's memory in their present shape,
for in a letter to me, dated 5 Nov. 1877, speaking of the poet's son, who
was Vicar of Bredfield, he says: "It is now just twenty years since the
Brave old Boy was laid in Bredfield Churchyard. Two of his Father's
Lines might make Epitaph for some good soul:--
'Friend of the Poor, the Wretched, the Betray'd;
They cannot pay thee--but thou shalt be paid.'
Pas mal ca, eh!"
{45a} In a letter to me dated October 29th, 1871, FitzGerald says:--
"A suggestion that casually fell from old Spedding's lips (I forget
how long ago) occurred to me the other day. Instead of
'Do such business as the bitter day,'
read 'better day'--a certain Emendation, I think. I hope you take
Spedding into your Counsel; he might be induced to look over one Play at
a time though he might shrink from all in a Body; and I scarce ever heard
him conning a page of Shakespeare but he suggested something which was an
improvement--on Shakespeare himself, if not on his Editors--though don't
[tell] Spedding that I say so, for God's sake."
{45b} In 'Notes and Queries,' April 18th, 1874.
{48a} Lord Hertford
{48b} Frank Carr Beard, the friend and medical adviser of Dickens and
Wilkie Collins.
{49a} See Lockhart's 'Life of Scott,' vii. 394. 'About half-past one,
P.M., on the 21st of September, [1832], Sir Walter breathed his last, in
the presence of all his children. It was a beautiful day--so warm that
every window was wide open, and so perfectly still, that the sound of all
others most delicious to his ear, the gentle ripple of the Tweed over its
pebbles, was distinctly audible as we knelt around the bed, and his
eldest son kissed and closed his eyes.'
{49b} Dryburgh.
{49c} The North West Passage. The 'Old Sea Captain' was Trelawny.
{50a} See 'Letters,' ii. 173-4.
{50b} E. F. S. Pigott.
{52} See 'Letters,' ii. 172.
{53a} Not _Macmillan_, but _Cornhill Magazine_, Dec. 1863, 'On the
Stage.' See Letter of 24 Aug. 1875.
{53b} "Pasta, the great lyric tragedian, who, Mrs. Siddons said, was
capable of giving her lessons, replied to the observation, 'Vous avez du
beaucoup etudier l'antique.' 'Je l'ai beaucoup senti.'"--From Mrs.
Kemble's article 'On the Stage' ('Cornhill,' 1863), reprinted as an
Introduction to her Notes upon some of Shakespeare's Plays.
{53c} 'Causeries du Lundi,' xiv. 234.
{53d} Lettre de Viard a M. Walpole, in 'Lettres de Madame du Deffand,'
iv. 178 (Paris, 1824). FitzGerald probably read it in Ste. Beuve,
'Causeries du Lundi,' i. 405.
{54} Cedars, not yew. See Memoirs of Chorley, ii. 240.
{55} In Tales of the Hall, Book XI. ('Works,' vi. 284), quoted from
memory.
{56} Virgil, AEn. vi. 127.
{57a} Referring to the well-known print of 'Remarkable Characters who
were at Tunbridge Wells with Richardson in 1748.'
{57b} James Spedding.
{59a} In the original draft of Tales of the Hall, Book VI.
{59b} See Memoirs of Chateaubriand, written by himself, Eng. trans. 1849
p. 123. At the Chateau of Combourg in Brittany, 'When supper was over,
and the party of four had removed from the table to the chimney, my
mother would throw herself, with a sigh, upon an old cotton-covered sofa,
and near her was placed a little stand with a light. I sat down by the
fire with Lucile; the servants removed the supper-things, and retired. My
father then began to walk up and down, and never ceased until his
bedtime. He wore a kind of white woollen gown, or rather cloak, such as
I have never seen with anyone else. His head, partly bald, was covered
with a large white cap, which stood bolt upright. When, in the course of
his walk, he got to a distance from the fire, the vast apartment was so
ill-lighted by a single candle that he could be no longer seen, he could
still be heard marching about in the dark, however, and presently
returned slowly towards the light, and emerged by degrees from obscurity,
looking like a spectre, with his white robe and cap, and his tall, thin
figure.'
{64a} 'The Mighty Magician' and 'Such Stuff as Dreams are made of.'
{64b} See Winter's Tale, iv. 4, 118-120.
{65} 'Euphranor.'
{67} See 'Letters,' ii. 180.
{68} Sir Arthur Helps died March 7th, 1875.
{69} The Passage of Carlyle to which FitzGerald refers is perhaps in
'Anti-Dryasdust,' in the Introduction to Cromwell's Letters and Speeches.
'By very nature it is a labyrinth and chaos, this that we call Human
History; an _abatis_ of trees and brushwood, a world-wide jungle, at once
growing and dying. Under the green foliage and blossoming fruit-trees of
To-day, there lie, rotting slower or faster, the forests of all other
Years and Days. Some have rotted fast, plants of annual growth, and are
long since quite gone to inorganic mould; others are like the aloe,
growths that last a thousand or three thousand years.' Ste. Beuve, in
his 'Nouveaux Lundis' (iv. 295), has a similar remark: 'Pour un petit
nombre d'arbres qui s'elevent de quelques pieds au-dessus de terre et qui
s'apercoivent de loin, il y a partout, en litterature, de cet humus et de
ce detrius vegetal, de ces feuilles accumulees et entassees qu'on ne
distingue pas, si l'on ne se baisse.' At the end of his copy FitzGerald
has referred to this as 'Carlyle's Peat.'
{71} In The Gamester. See 'Macready's Reminiscences,' i. 54-57.
{72a} In Rowe's Tamerlane. See 'Macready's Reminiscences,' i. 202.
{72b} Probably the English Tragedy, which was finished in October 1838.
See 'Records of Later Days,' ii. 168.
{74} In the _Transactions of the New Shakspere Society_ for 1875-76. The
surviving editor of the 'Cambridge Shakspeare' does not at all feel that
Spedding's criticism 'smashed' the theory which was only put forward as a
tentative solution of a perhaps insoluble problem.
{75a} See 'Letters,' ii. 177.
{75b} See 'Letters,' ii. 198, 228, and Boswell's 'Johnson' (ed. Birkbeck
Hill), iv. 193.
{77} FitzGerald wrote to me about the same time:
"Spedding has (you know) a delicious little Paper about the Merchant
of Venice in July _Fraser_:--but I think he is wrong in subordinating
Shylock to the Comedy Part. If that were meant to be so, Williams
['the divine Williams,' as some Frenchman called Shakespeare]
miscalculated, throwing so much of his very finest writing into the
Jew's Mouth, the downright human Nature of which makes all the Love-
Story Child's play, though very beautiful Child's play indeed."
{78} 'On the Stage,' in the _Cornhill Magazine_ for December 1863
Reprinted as an Introduction to Mrs. Kemble's 'Notes upon some of
Shakespeare's Plays.'
{79} See his 'Life and Letters,' p. 46.
{80} In the _Cornhill Magazine_ for July 1875, The Merchant of Venice at
the Prince of Wales's Theatre.
{82a} 'The Enterprising Impresario' by Walter Maynard (Thomas Willert
Beale), 1867, pp 273-4.
{82b} Beginning, 'A spirit haunts the year's last hours.' It first
appeared in the poems of 1830, p. 67, and is now included in Tennyson's
Collected Works. See 'Letters,' ii. 256.
{82c} By Sir Gilbert Elliot, father of the first Lord Minto. The query
appeared 25 Sept. 1875 ('N. & Q.' 5th Series, iv. 247), and two answers
are given at p. 397, but not by E. F.G.
{83} See 'Letters,' ii. 185.
{84} The _Atlantic Monthly_ for August, September, and October 1875.
{85a} _Atlantic Monthly_, August 1875, p. 167, by T. S. Perry.
{85b} _Ibid._, p. 240.
{86} From Oct. 30 to Nov. 4.
{87a} The Trial of Queen Katharine in _Henry VIII_. Charles Kemble
acted Cromwell.
{87b} _Atlantic Monthly_, August 1875, p. 165.
{88a} 'The Exile,' quoted from memory.
{88b} See letter of August 24, 1875.
{89} _Atlantic Monthly_, August 1875, p. 156.
{90a} Thomas Griffiths Wainewright. De Quincey's account of him is in
his essay on Charles Lamb ('Works,' ed. 1862, viii. 146). His career was
the subject of a story by Dickens, called 'Hunted Down.'
{90b} Minnie Thackeray (Mrs. Leslie Stephen) died Nov. 28.
{91} About the same time he wrote to me:--
'A dozen years ago I entreated Annie Thackeray, Smith & Elder, &c., to
bring out a Volume of Thackeray's better Drawings. Of course they
wouldn't--now Windus and Chatto have, you know, brought out a Volume
of his inferior: and now Annie T. S. & E. prepare a Volume--when it is
not so certain to pay, at any rate, as when W. M. T. was the Hero of
the Day. However, I send them all I have: pretty confident they will
select the worst; of course, for my own part, I would rather have any
other than copies of what I have: but I should like the World to
acknowledge he could do something beside the ugly and ridiculous.
Annie T. sent me the enclosed Specimen: very careless, but full of
Character. I can see W. M. T. drawing it as he was telling one about
his Scotch Trip. That disputatious Scotchman in the second Row with
Spectacles, and--teeth. You may know some who will be amused at
this:--but send it back, please: no occasion to write beside.'