wn to Mr. Donne, whose acquaintance
I hope you will keep up. He is one of the finest gentlemen I know, and
no ordinary scholar--remarkable also for his fidelity to his friends.'

{23} The Return to Nature, or, a Defence of the Vegetable Regimen,
dedicated to Dr. W. Lambe, and written in 1811. It was printed in 1821
in The Pamphleteer, No. 38, p. 497.

{28} Wherstead Lodge on the West bank of the Orwell, about two miles
from Ipswich, formerly belonged to the Vernon family. The FitzGeralds
lived there for about ten years, from 1825 to 1835, when they removed to
Boulge, near Woodbridge, the adjoining Parish to Bredfield.

{32} By De Quincey, in Tait's Magazine, Sept. 1834, etc.

{38} At Boulge.

{42} Life of Cowper.

{43a} Probably the Perse Grammar School.

{43b} See Carlyle's Life of Sterling, c. iv.

{44} East Anglian for 'shovel.'

{45} Mrs. Schutz lived till December, 1847.

{50a} The Quaker Poet of Woodbridge, whose daughter FitzGerald
afterwards married.

{50b} His eldest brother, John Purcell FitzGerald.

{52} Letters from an eminent Prelate to one of his Friends, 2nd ed.;
1809, p. 114, Letter XLVI.

{57} A noted prize fighter.

{58} Widow of Serjeant Frere, Master of Downing College, Cambridge.

{59} Probably Mrs. Schutz of Gillingham Hall, already mentioned.

{60a} Coram Street.

{60b} Wordsworth, The Fountain, ed. 1800.

{61a} William Browne.

{61b} Probably Bletsoe.

{62} Where FitzGerald's uncle, Mr. Peter Purcell, lived.

{64} By Captain Allen F. Gardiner, R.N., 1836.

{65} In an article in Blackwood's Magazine for April 1830, p. 632,
headed Poetical Portraits by a Modern Pythagorean. FitzGerald either
quoted the lines from memory, or intentionally altered them. They
originally stood,

His spirit was the home
Of aspirations high;
A temple, whose huge dome
Was hidden in the sky.

Robert Macnish, LL.D., was the author of The Anatomy of Drunkenness and
The Philosophy of Sleep.

{66a} Master Humphrey's Clock.

{66b} Where Thackeray was then also living.

{67} At Geldestone Hall, near Beccles.

{73a} His sister.

{73b} R. W. Evans, Vicar of Heversham.

{73c} The Paris Sketch Book.

{73d} V. 9.

{75} The artist, of whom Spedding wrote to Thompson in 1842 when he
wished them to become acquainted, 'There is another man whom I have asked
to come a little after 10; because you do not know him, and mutual self
introduction