[193] The defeat of General Burrows by Ayoub Khan, announced in the House of Commons, July 28, 1880. On July 29 further telegrams reported that General Burrows and other officers had arrived at Candahar after the defeat.
[194] The date should be September 19, which was a Sunday in 1880. Full moon was on September 18.
[197] In her ‘Further Records,’ i. 295, Mrs. Kemble says, ‘Russia leather, you know, is almost an element of the atmosphere of my rooms, as all the shades of violet and purple are of their colouring, so that my familiar friends associate the two with their notions of my habitat.’
[198] See ‘Life of Crabbe,’ p. 262.
[200] See ‘Letters,’ ii. 295.
[201a] On ‘The Story of the Merchant of Venice’ in the Cornhill Magazine for March 1880.
[201b] ‘Ballads and other Poems,’ 1880.
[202] Kelter, condition, order. Forby’s ‘Vocabulary of East Anglia.’
[203a] See ‘Letters,’ ii. 110
[203b] ‘Medusa and other Tales’ (1868), republished in 1880 with a preface by her daughter, Mrs. Gordon.