So now have recourse to Forster's Life
of Dickens--a very good Book, I still think. Also, Eckermann's
Goethe--almost as repeatedly to be read as Boswell's Johnson--a German
Johnson--and (as with Boswell) more interesting to me in Eckermann's
Diary than in all his own famous works.

Adieu: Ever yours sincerely
E. F.G.

I am daily--hourly--expecting to hear of the Death of another Friend
{155}--not so old a Friend, but yet a great loss to me.

LX.

11 MARINE TERRACE, LOWESTOFT,
_Septr._ 24, [1879 ]

MY DEAR MRS. KEMBLE,

I was to have been at Woodbridge before this: and your Letter only
reached me here yesterday. I have thought upon your desire to see me as
an old Friend of yourself and yours; and you shall not have the trouble
of saying so in vain. I should indeed be perplext at the idea of your
coming all this way for such a purpose, to be shut up at an Hotel with no
one to look in on you but myself (for you would not care for my Kindred
here)--and my own Woodbridge House would require a little time to set in
order, as I have for the present lost the services of one of my 'helps'
there. What do you say to my going to London to see you instead of your
coming down to see me? I should anyhow have to go to London soon; and I
could make my going sooner, or as soon as you please. Not but, if you
want to get out of London, as well as to see me, I can surely get my
house right in a little time, and will gladly do so, should you prefer
it. I hope, indeed, that you will not stay in London at this time of
year, when so many friends are out of it; and it has been my thought--and
hope, I may say--that you have already betaken yourself to some pleasant
place, with a pleasant Friend or two, which now keeps me from going at
once to look for you in London, after a few Adieus here. Pray let me
know your wishes by return of Post: and I will do my best to meet them
immediately: being

Ever sincerely yours
E. F.G.

LXI.

WOODBRIDGE: _Sept._ 28, [1879.]

DEAR MRS. KEMBLE:--

I cannot be sure of your Address: but I venture a note--to say that--If
you return to London on Wednesday, I shall certainly run up (the same
day, if I can) to see you before you again depart on Saturday, as your
letter proposes. {157}

But I also write to beg you not to leave your Daughter for ever so short
a while, simply because you had so arranged, and told me of your
Arrangement.

If this Note of mine reach you somehow to