son's
Farewell. Macpherson (see Burns) was a Highland robber; he played that
Tune, of his own composition, on his way to the gallows; asked, "If in
all that crowd the Macpherson had any clansman?" holding up the fiddle
that he might bequeath it to some one. "Any kinsman, any soul that
wished him well?" Nothing answered, nothing durst answer. He crushed
the fiddle under his foot, and sprang off. The Tune is rough as hemp,
but strong as a lion. I never hear it without something of emotion,--poor
Macpherson; tho' the Artist hates to play it. Alfred's dark face grew
darker, and I saw his lip slightly quivering!'

{185} By James Montgomery: 'Friends' in his Miscellaneous Poems (Works,
ii. 298, ed. 1836).

{189} Miss Cooke.

{190} Great aunt of W. B. Donne.

{196} At Keysoe Vicarage

{197} See letter to Allen, August 1842.

{198} At the Norwich Festival.

{201} James White, author of The Earl of Gowrie, etc.

{202} A Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo.

{203} See the Memoir of Bernard Barton by E. F. G. prefixed to the
posthumous volume of selections from his Poems and Letters, p. xxvi.

{204a} Address to the members of the Norwich Athenaeum, October 17th,
1845.

{204b} Now Professor of Sanskrit at Cambridge.

{205a} Professor Cowell explains to me that this refers to a passage of
Ausonius in his poem on the Moselle. It occurs in the description of the
bank scenery as reflected in the river (194, 5):

Tota natant crispis juga motibus et tremit absens
Pampinus, et vitreis vindemia turget in undis.

FitzGerald used to admire the break in the line after _absens_.

{205b} A reminiscence of Shelley's Evening, as this was of a line in
Wordsworth's Elegiac Stanzas suggested by a picture of Peele Castle in a
storm.

{205c} The short _pasticcio_ of the battle referred to in the letter to
Barton, 22 Sept. 1842.

{209} Trinity Church, Bedford.

{210a} On King's Parade.

{210b} Mrs. Perry.

{211a} F. B. Edgeworth died 12th Oct. 1846.

{211b} Euphranor.

{213} The Rev. J. T. Nottidge of Ipswich died 21 Jan. 1847.

{220} [The last two words are crossed out.--W. A. W.]

{222} Francis Duncan, rector of West Chelborough.

{225} Morris Moore's letters on the Abuses of the National Gallery were
addressed to The Times at the end of 1846 and the beginning of 1847 with
the signature 'Verax.' They were collected and published in a pamphlet
by Pickering in 1847.

{227} See