[251a] The Promise of May was acted at the Globe Theatre, November 11th, 1882.
[251b] See letter of November 13th, 1879.
[252a] Mrs. Wister’s son.
[252b] See letter of March 28th, 1880.
[253a] ‘John Leech and other Papers,’ 1882.
[253b] November 18th, 1882.
[257] See ‘Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle,’ ii. 249.
[259] For May 1883: ‘Mrs. Carlyle.’
[260] Tennyson’s ‘Brook.’
[261] In a letter to Sir Frederick Pollock, March 16th, 1879, he says:—