[49] Though posted in Gravesend this letter appears to have been written between London and the Estuary. Some say in Dead Man’s Reach.
[50] This passage was set for the Latin Prose in the Burford Scholarship of 1875. It was won by Mr. Hurt, now Chaplain of the Wainmakers’ Guild.
[51] Normans.
[52] Hastings.
[53] These letters were never printed till now.
[54] The late Hon. John Tupton, the amiable colonial who purchased Marlborough House and made so great a stir in London some years ago.
[55] Mrs. Tupton, senior, a woman whose heroic struggles in the face of extreme poverty were a continual commentary on the awful results of our so-called perfected Penal System.
[56] There is great doubt upon the exactitude of this. In his lifetime Tupton often spoke of “the poor tenement house in New York where I was born,” and in a letter he alludes to “my birth at sea in the steerage of a Liner.”
[57] This was perhaps the origin of a phrase which may be found scattered with profusion throughout Lambkin’s works.
[58] Mr. Lambkin did not give the derivation of this word.