[36] This and following letters to Mr. and Mrs. Cowden Clarke appeared in a volume entitled "Recollections of Writers."
[37] The house in which Shakespeare was born, at Stratford-on-Avon.
[38] A character in "Used Up."
[39] As fairies in "Merry Wives."
[40] A huge blot of smeared ink.
[41] "Young Gas."}
[42] "Gas-Light Boy."} Names he had playfully given himself.
[43] Mr. Joseph Charles King, the friend of many artists and literary men, conducted a private school, at which the sons of Mr. Macready and of Charles Dickens were being educated at this time.
[44] "Not So Bad As We Seem; or, Many Sides to a Character."
[45] "Not So Bad As We Seem."