[175] Beginning ‘As men may children at their sports behold!’—Tales of the Hall, book xxi., at the end of ‘Smugglers and Poachers.’
[176] In the Cornhill Magazine, March 1880, ‘The Story of the Merchant of Venice.’
[179] ‘An Eye-witness of John Kemble,’ by Sir Theodore Martin. The eye-witness is Tieck.
[180a] This letter was written on a Tuesday, and April 6 was a Tuesday in 1880. Moreover, in 1880, at Easter, Donne’s house was in quarantine. FitzGerald probably had the advanced sheets of the Atlantic Monthly for May from Professor Norton as early as the beginning of April.
[180b] The Atlantic Monthly for May 1880, contained an article by Mr. G. E. Woodberry on Crabbe, ‘A Neglected Poet.’ See letter to Professor Norton, May 1, 1880, in ‘Letters,’ ii. 281.
[181a] No. 39, where FitzGerald’s father and mother lived. See ‘Records of a Girlhood,’ iii. 28.
[181b] See ‘Letters,’ ii. 138.
[183a] It was Queen Catharine. When Mrs. Siddons called upon Johnson in 1783, he “particularly asked her which of Shakespeare’s characters she was most pleased with. Upon her answering that she thought the character of Queen Catharine, in Henry the Eighth, the most natural:—‘I think so too, Madam, (said he;) and when ever you perform it, I will once more hobble out to the theatre myself.’”—Boswell’s ‘Life of Johnson’ (ed. Birkbeck Hill), iv. 242.
[183b] See letters of February and December 1881.
[184a] See ‘Letters,’ ii. 244, 249.