Have you the Robin in America? One is singing in the little bit Garden before me now.
XXII.
59 Montagu square, London, W.
5 Oct./74.
My dear Fitz,
It is very good of Mrs. Kemble to wish to
tell me a story about Macready, and I shall be glad to know it.
Only—she should know that I am not writing his life—but editing his autobiographical reminiscences and diaries—and unless the anecdote could be introduced to explain or illustrate these, it would not be serviceable for my present purpose.
But for its own sake and for Macready’s I should like to be made acquainted with it.
I am making rapid way with the printing—in fact have got to the end of what will be Vol. I. in slip—so that I hope the work may be out by or soon after Christmas, if the engravings are also ready by that time.
It will be, I am sure, most interesting—and will surprise a great many people who did not at all know what Macready really was.