“Love to Mrs. Gilder
And to all the childer.”
After that, in a series of brief notes called out by the Landor article, there was a peppering of these lines, each note ending in a couplet, as—
“Give my love to Mrs. Gilder,
Hope this weather hasn’t chill’d her.”
“Love to Mrs. Gilder,
Glad that it thrilled her.”
“Love to Mrs. Gilder:
At her birth kind fairies filled her
(to be continued in my next).”
“(Continued)
Cup with all sweet gifts and trilled her
(to be continued)”
but in his next he is obliged to write: “I have lost my cue in the epic poem to Mrs. Gilder’s address. I thought I could carry it in my memory, but find that her pocket has holes in it.”
[98] That is, by parting with more of his land in Cambridge.
[99] Letters, ii. 337.