intolerable. I shall leave my Edition of Tales of the Hall,
made legible by the help of Scissors and Gum, with a word or two of Prose
to bridge over pages of stupid Verse. I don't wish to try and supersede
the Original, but, by the Abstract, to get People to read the whole, and
so learn (as in Clarissa) how to get it all under command. I even wish
that some one in America would undertake to publish--in whole, or part by
part--my 'Readings in Crabbe,' viz., Tales of the Hall: but no one would
let me do the one thing I can do.

I think you must repent having encouraged such a terrible Correspondent
as myself: you have the remedy in your own hands, you know. I find that
the Bronchitis I had in Spring returns upon me now: so I have to give up
my Night walks, and stalk up and down my own half-lighted Hall (like
Chateaubriand's Father) {59b} till my Reader comes. Ever yours truly

E. F.G.

_Novr._ 21.

I detained this letter till I heard from Donne, who has been at Worthing,
and writes cheerfully.

XXIV.

LOWESTOFT, _Febr._ 11/75.

DEAR MRS. KEMBLE,

Will you please to thank Mr. Furness for the trouble he has taken about
Crabbe. The American Publisher is like the English, it appears, and both
may be quite right. They certainly are right in not accepting anything
except on very good recommendation; and a Man's Fame is the best they can
have for that purpose. I should not in the least be vext or even
disappointed at any rejection of my Crabbe, but it is not worth further
trouble to any party to send across the Atlantic what may, most probably,
be returned with thanks and Compliments. And then Mr. Furness would feel
bound to ask some other Publisher, and you to write to me about it. No,
no! Thank him, if you please: you know I thank you: and then I will let
the matter drop.

The Athenaeum told me there was a Paper by Carlyle in the January
Fraser--on the old Norway Kings. Then People said it was not his: but
his it is, surely enough (though I have no Authority but my own Judgment
for saying so), and quite delightful. If missing something of his Prime,
missing also all his former 'Sound and Fury,' etc., and as alive as ever.
I had thoughts of writing to him on the subject, but have not yet done
so. But pray do you read the Papers: there is a continuation in the
February Fraser: and 'to be continued' till ended, I suppose.

Your Photograph--Yes--I saw your Mother in it, as I saw her in you when