[196] June 10, 1876, was a Saturday. Perhaps the letter was finished on Sunday.
[197] In 1851. Wordsworth’s Letters are in the second volume, pp. 145-173.
[198] Boswell’s Johnson, viii. 183.
[199] Haydon’s Memoirs, iii. 199.
[200] Archdeacon Groome, Rector of Monk Soham, Suffolk.
[202] Suffolk for ‘donkey.’
[206] The Song of Brunanburh by Hallam Tennyson. Contemporary Review, Nov. 1876.
[208] In 1863 he wrote to George Crabbe,—
‘I am now reading Clarissa Harlowe, for about the fifth time: I dare say you wouldn’t have patience to read it once: indeed the first time is the most trying. It is a very wonderful, and quite original, and unique, Book: but almost intolerable from its Length and Sentimentality.’
[213] See p. 207.