giving 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