t seen for more than twenty years. So I do hope to do my
'petit possible' to solace both these poor Ladies at the same time."

{158} On September 11 he wrote to me, 'Ah, pleasant Dunwich Days! I
should never know a better Boy than Edwards, nor a braver little Wife
than her, were I to live six times as long as I am like to do.'

{160} See letter of October 4, 1875.

{161} Mrs. Leigh's son, Pierce Butler, was born on Sunday, November 2,
1879.

{162} See 'Letters,' ii. 326.

{163a} Mrs. Kemble appears to have adopted this suggestion. In her
'Records of a Girlhood,' ii. 41, she says of Sir Thomas Lawrence, 'He
came repeatedly to consult with my mother about the disputed point of my
dress, and gave his sanction to her decision upon it. The first dress of
Belvidera [in _Venice Preserved_], I remember, was a point of nice
discussion between them. . . . I was allowed (not, however, without
serious demur on the part of Lawrence) to cover my head with a black hat
and white feather.'

{163b} William Mason.

{166} November 10, 1879.

{168} Mrs. De Soyres died at Exeter, December 11, 1879.

{169} Played at St. James's Theatre, December 18, 1879.

{171} 'The Duke's Children.'

{173} Probably the 'Records of Later Life,' published in 1882.

{174} On 1st February 1880, FitzGerald wrote to me:--"Do you know what
'Stub Iron' is? (I do), and what 'Heel-taps' derives from, which Mrs.
Kemble asks, and I cannot tell her." This is probably the query referred
to.

{175} Beginning 'As men may children at their sports behold!'--Tales of
the Hall, book xxi., at the end of 'Smugglers and Poachers.'

{176} In the _Cornhill Magazine_, March 1880, 'The Story of the Merchant
of Venice.'

{179} 'An Eye-witness of John Kemble,' by Sir Theodore Martin. The eye-
witness is Tieck.

{180a} This letter was written on a Tuesday, and April 6 was a Tuesday
in 1880. Moreover, in 1880, at Easter, Donne's house was in quarantine.
FitzGerald probably had the advanced sheets of the _Atlantic Monthly_ for
May from Professor Norton as early as the beginning of April.

{180b} The _Atlantic Monthly_ for May 1880, contained an article by Mr.
G. E. Woodberry on Crabbe, 'A Neglected Poet.' See letter to Professor
Norton, May 1, 1880, in 'Letters,' ii. 281.

{181a} No. 39, where FitzGerald's father and mother lived. See 'Records
of a Girlhood,' iii. 28.

{181b} See 'Letters,' ii. 138.

{183a} It was Queen Catharine. Wh