much; I suppose a parent can love all through a
whole lifetime of absence: but do you think there can be a very
strong and enduring affection in a child's bosom for a parent
hardly known except by hearsay? I should doubt it. I must leave off
now, and remain,

Always yours most truly,
F.A. KEMBLE.

GREAT RUSSELL STREET, March 29, 1831.
DEAR MRS. JAMESON,

Will you be kind enough to forward my very best acknowledgments to
Sir Gerard Noeel, both for his good wishes and the more tangible
proof of interest he sent me (a considerable payment for a box on
my benefit night)? I am sorry you were alarmed on Monday. You
alarmed us all; you looked so exceedingly ill that I feared
something very serious had occurred to distress and vex you. Thank
you for your critique upon my Constance; both my mother and myself
were much delighted with it; it was every way acceptable to me, for
the censure I knew to be deserved, and the praise I hoped was so,
and they were blended in the very nicest proportions. We dine at
six to-morrow. Lady Cork insisted upon five, but that was really
too primitive, because, as the dandy said, "we cannot eat meat in
the morning."

Ever yours most truly,
F. A. K.

GREAT RUSSELL STREET, March 30, 1831.
DEAR MRS. JAMESON,

Thank you for your money; it is necessary to be arithmetical if one
means to be economical, and I receive your tribute with more
pleasure than that of a duchess. I sometimes hear people lament
that they have anything to do with money. I do not at all share
that feeling; money, after all, only represents other things. If
one has much, it is always well to look to one's expenditure, or
the much will become much less; and if one has little, and works
hard for it, I cannot understand being above receiving the price of
one's labor. In all kinds "the laborer is worthy of his hire," and
I think it very foolish to talk as if we set no value upon that
which we value enough to toil for. With regard to the tickets you
wish me to send you, I must refer you to the theater; for, finding
that my wits and temper wer