Letters of Edward FitzGerald Volume I Part 30

{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 introductions are a nuisance. If however he should by any misfortune of mine arrive before I do, know that he is Samuel Laurence, a portrait painter of real genius, of whom during the last year I have seen a great deal and boldly p.r.o.nounce him to be worthy of all good men's love. He is one of the men of whom you feel certain that they will never tire you, and never do anything which you will wish they had not done. His advantages of education have been such as it has pleased G.o.d (who was never particular about giving his favourite children a good education) to send him. But he has sent him what really does as well or better--the clearest eye and the truest heart; and it may be said of him as of Sir Peter that

Nature had but little clay Like that of which she moulded him.'

{79a} Afterwards Greek Professor and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.

{79b} In a letter to me written in August 1881 he says, "To-morrow comes down my Italian sister to Boulge (Malebolge?), and I await her visits here."

{80a} The British and Foreign Review, 1840, Art. on 'The Present Government of Russia,' pp 543-591.

{80b} _Ibid._ pp. 510-542.

{80c} _Ibid._ p. 355, etc., Art. on 'Introduction to the Literature of Europe.'

{82} On Hero Worship.

{89} Major Moor of Great Bealings; author of The Hindu Pantheon, Suffolk Words, Oriental Fragments, etc.

{90a} By Gerald Griffin.

{90b} The chapel of the Palazzo del Podesta, or Bargello, then used as a prison.

{93} The London coach.

{96} The owner of Bredfield House, where E. F. G. was born.

{97} Hor. Od. 1. 4. 14, 15.

{98} Hor. Od. IV. 5, 25-27. horrida . . . foetus per metasyntaxin 'horrid abortions.'

{99} Not for the Cabinet Cyclopaedia, but the Library of Useful Knowledge. It was never finished.

{100a} See Barton's Letters, p. 70.

{100b} Vol. III. p. 318.

{100c} The correct reading is 'lonesome.'

{102} No. 30, where his father and mother lived.

{106} Shakespeare, Macb. I. 3, 146, 147.

{111} Milton, P. L. IX. 445.

{114a} Who was in America with Lord Ashburton.

{114b} The late Sir W. F. Pollock, formerly Queen's Remembrancer.