{120} Gilbert's Palace of Truth.

{122a} Edwin Edwards.

{122b} Cornhill, June 1870. 'A Clever Forgery,' by Dr. W. Pole.

{127} Thirty Years' Musical Recollections, vol. i. p. 162.

{128} In 1879 he wrote to Professor Cowell, 'O, Sir Walter will fly over
all their heads "come aquila" still!'

{133} Not 'Yaffil' but 'yaffingale.'

{135a} In Hamlet, ii. 2. 337, 'Whose lungs are tickle o' the sear.'

{135b} 'Read rascal in the motions of his back,
And scoundrel in the supple-sliding knee.'--_Sea Dreams_.

{136} Thus far written in pencil by Carlyle himself. The rest of the
letter except the signature and postscript is in Mr. Froude's hand.

{139a} This appears to be a mistake.

{139b} At Whitsuntide.

{139c} As Thackeray used to call Carlyle.

{140} Old Kensington.

{141a} In 1873 he wrote to Miss Thackeray,

'Only yesterday I lighted upon some mention of your Father in the
Letters of that mad man of Genius Morton, who came to a sudden and
terrible end in Paris not long after. He was a good deal in Coram
Street, and no one admired your Father more, nor made so sure of his
'_doing something_' at last, so early as 1842. A Letter of Jan. 22/45
says: "I hear of Thackeray at Rome. Once there, depend upon it, he
will stay there some time. There is something glutinous in the soil
of Rome, that, like the sweet Dew that lies on the lime-leaf, ensnares
the Butterfly Traveller's foot." Which is not so bad, is it? And
again, still in England, and harping on Rome, whose mere name, he
says, "moves the handle of the Pump of Tears in him" (one of his
grotesque fancies), he suddenly bethinks him (Feb. 4/45). "This is
the last day of Carnival, Thackeray is walking down the Corso with his
hands in his Breeches pockets: stopping to look at some little Child.
At night, millions of Moccoletti, dasht about with endless Shouts and
Laughter, etc."'

{144} Byron's verses on Rogers.

{145} In Fraser's Magazine, May 1870.

{146a} Inferno, Canto V. 127.

{146b} F. C. Brooke of Ufford.

{146c} Probably a frontispiece to Omar Khayyam which was never used.

{147} Roqueplan, La Vie Parisienne.

{148} Salons Celebres, p. 97, ed. 1882.

{149a} Q. Rev. No. LXVII. p. 216.

{149b} Wherstead.

{150} Euphranor.

{153} 31st March, when the letter was probably finished.

{160} Cent. III. section 238.

{161} In June 1871 he wrote to me, 'One Improv