[116a] Printed in the East Anglian Notes and Queries for 1869 and 1870.
[116b] The partnership was dissolved in June 1870.
[118a] Ten years before, Nov. 2, 1860, FitzGerald wrote to his old friend, the late Mr. W. E. Crowfoot of Beccles: ‘I have been reading with interest some French Memoirs towards the end of the last century: when the French were a cheerful, ingenious, witty, trifling people; they had not yet tasted of the Blood of the Revolution, which really seems to me to have altered their character. The modern French Novels exhibit Vengeance as a moving Virtue: even toward one another: can we suppose they think less well of it towards us? In this respect they are really the most barbarous People of Europe.
[118b] 29 Oct. 1870.
[120] Gilbert’s Palace of Truth.
[122a] Edwin Edwards.
[122b] Cornhill, June 1870. ‘A Clever Forgery,’ by Dr. W. Pole.
[127] Thirty Years’ Musical Recollections, vol. i. p. 162.
[128] In 1879 he wrote to Professor Cowell, ‘O, Sir Walter will fly over all their heads “come aquila” still!’
[133] Not ‘Yaffil’ but ‘yaffingale.’