s are a nuisance. If however he should by any misfortune of
mine arrive before I do, know that he is Samuel Laurence, a portrait
painter of real genius, of whom during the last year I have seen a great
deal and boldly pronounce him to be worthy of all good men's love. He is
one of the men of whom you feel certain that they will never tire you,
and never do anything which you will wish they had not done. His
advantages of education have been such as it has pleased God (who was
never particular about giving his favourite children a good education) to
send him. But he has sent him what really does as well or better--the
clearest eye and the truest heart; and it may be said of him as of Sir
Peter that

Nature had but little clay
Like that of which she moulded him.'

{79a} Afterwards Greek Professor and Master of Trinity College,
Cambridge.

{79b} In a letter to me written in August 1881 he says, "To-morrow comes
down my Italian sister to Boulge (Malebolge?), and I await her visits
here."

{80a} The British and Foreign Review, 1840, Art. on 'The Present
Government of Russia,' pp 543-591.

{80b} _Ibid._ pp. 510-542.

{80c} _Ibid._ p. 355, etc., Art. on 'Introduction to the Literature of
Europe.'

{82} On Hero Worship.

{89} Major Moor of Great Bealings; author of The Hindu Pantheon, Suffolk
Words, Oriental Fragments, etc.

{90a} By Gerald Griffin.

{90b} The chapel of the Palazzo del Podesta, or Bargello, then used as a
prison.

{93} The London coach.

{96} The owner of Bredfield House, where E. F. G. was born.

{97} Hor. Od. 1. 4. 14, 15.

{98} Hor. Od. IV. 5, 25-27. horrida . . . foetus per metasyntaxin
'horrid abortions.'

{99} Not for the Cabinet Cyclopaedia, but the Library of Useful
Knowledge. It was never finished.

{100a} See Barton's Letters, p. 70.

{100b} Vol. III. p. 318.

{100c} The correct reading is 'lonesome.'

{102} No. 30, where his father and mother lived.

{106} Shakespeare, Macb. I. 3, 146, 147.

{111} Milton, P. L. IX. 445.

{114a} Who was in America with Lord Ashburton.

{114b} The late Sir W. F. Pollock, formerly Queen's Remembrancer.

{114c} The Library of Useless Knowledge, by Athanasius Gasker [E. W.
Clarke, son of E. D. Clarke, the Traveller], published in 1837.

{115a} Referring to the 1842 edition of Tennyson's Poems.

{115b} Spedding was at this time in America with Lord Ashburton.

{122} The Rev. T. R. Matthews, of Sidne