[5] The Rugby bookseller.
[6] Clough at this time was with a reading party, which furnished him with many of the scenes and characters afterwards reproduced in his poem of the Bothie.
[7] This was the scene of another reading party—
‘Up on the side of Loch Ness, in the beautiful valley of Urquhart.’
‘The inn by the Foyers Fall, where
Over the loch looks at you the summit of Mealfourvonie.’
The Bothie, Part iii.
[9] This volume appeared in 1849, under the name of Ambarvalia.
[10] After resigning his Fellowship and Tutorship at Oriel, Clough had accepted the Headship of University Hall in London, and this letter was written in consequence of a request which had been made him by the authorities.