[88] I.e. on George Keats’s mother-in-law, Mrs. Wylie.
[89] The tassels were a gift from his sister-in-law.
[90] The sheet which Keats accidentally left out in making up his packet in the spring, and which he forwarded with this supplement from Winchester the following September, seems to have begun with the words, “On Monday we had to dinner,” etc. (p. 231), and to have ended with the words, “but as I am” (p. 235, line 1): at least this portion of the letter is missing in the autograph now before me. I supply it from Jeffrey’s transcript.
[91] To about this date must belong the posthumously printed Ode on Indolence, which describes the same mood with nearly the same imagery. Possibly the “black eye” mentioned by Keats in his footnote, together with the reflections on street-fighting later on, may help us to fix the date of his famous fight with the butcher boy.
[92] Compare the repetition of the same thought and phrase in the ode To a Nightingale written two months later.
[93] Slightly misquoted from Macbeth in the banquet scene.
[94] By mistake for the 19th of March.
[95] For “put together”?
[96] Brown’s younger brothers: see below, p. 245.