'Letters,' ii. 192

{97b} See the _Athenaeum_ for Jan. 1, 15, 22, 29, 1876.

{100} In her 'Further Records,' i. 250, Mrs. Kemble wrote, March 11th,
1876:--

'Last week my old friend Edward Fitzgerald (Omar Kyam, you know), sent
me a beautiful miniature of my mother, which his mother--her intimate
friend--had kept till her death, and which had been painted for Mrs.
Fitzgerald. It is a full-length figure, very beautifully painted, and
very like my mother. Almost immediately after receiving this from
England, my friend Mr. Horace Furness came out to see me. He is a
great collector of books and prints, and brought me an old engraving
of my mother in the character of Urania, which a great many years ago
I remember to have seen, and which was undoubtedly the original of
Mrs. Fitzgerald's miniature. I thought the concidence of their both
reaching me at the same time curious.'

{105} On July 22nd, 1880, he wrote to me:--"I am still reading her! And
could make a pretty Introduction to her; but Press-work is hard to me
now, and nobody would care for what I should do, when done. Mrs. Edwards
has found me a good Photo of 'nos pauvres Rochers,' a straggling old
Chateau, with (I suppose) the Chapel which her old 'Bien Bon' Uncle built
in 1671--while she was talking to her Gardener Pilois and reading
Montaigne, Moliere, Pascal, _or_ Cleopatra, among the trees she had
planted. Bless her! I should like to have made Lamb like her, in spite
of his anti-gallican Obstinacy."

{106} Mrs. Charles Donne, daughter of John Mitchell Kemble, died April
15th, 1876.

{107} First acted April 18th, 1876.

{108a} See 'Letters,' ii. 293.

{108b} See 'Letters,' ii. 198.

{109a} _Atlantic Monthly_, June 1876, p. 719.

{109b} Which opened May 10th, 1876.

{110} In one of his Common Place Books FitzGerald has entered from the
_Monthly Mirror_ for 1807 the following passage of Rousseau on Stage
Scenery--'Ils font, pour epouventer, un Fracas de Decorations sans Effet.
Sur la scene meme il ne faut pas tout dire a la Vue: mais ebranler
l'Imagmation.'

{111} For April and May 1876: 'The Latest Theory about Bacon.'

{113a} See letter of October 4th, 1875

{113b} See 'Letters,' ii. 202-205.

{113c} This card is now in my possession, 'Mr. Alfred Tennyson.
Farringford.' On it is written in pencil, "Dear old Fitz--I am passing
thro' and will call again. [The last three words are crossed out