seems to have been violent, for in 1836 he knocked down Bunn as "a damned
scoundrel" and had to pay damages. In 1837 he was manager of Covent
Garden Theatre. He was the original Claude Melnotte in 1838.

In 1850 he played at Windsor Castle under Charles Kean, who "sent him a
courteous message and received a characteristically churlish reply." He
took the last of many farewell performances in 1851. His diary and
reminiscences have been edited by Sir F. Pollock.

{216} In 1858 he wrote to a friend asking him to convey a note of thanks
"to the author of _Scenes of Clerical Life_ whose two first stories I can
never say enough of, I think them so truly admirable." He adds that they
are undoubtedly by a woman.

{219} Lady Holland.

{221} Mr Arthur Smith, his friend and secretary.

{228} It was curious that he should use so provincial an expression as
_riding_ in a cab.

{231a} Originally published in the proceedings of the _Cotteswold Nat.
Field Club_, 1918, under the title, "The Effects of the Cold Spring of
1917 on the Flowering of Plants."

{231b} _A Naturalist's Calendar kept at Swaffham Bulbeck_,
_Cambridgeshire_. By Leonard Blomefield (formerly Jenyns). Edited by
Francis Darwin. Cambridge: at the University Press, 1903.

{232} I am also indebted to Mr Embrey for his kind help in this matter.

{233} Kjellman, in Nordenskiold's _Studien und Forschungen_, 1885, pp.
449, 467.

{234} Botan: Zeitung, 1877.

{235} _A Naturalist's Calendar_, p. xii.

{237} _The Times Literary Supplement_, 12th January 1917, p. 326.

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