[64] In a letter to Mr. Dennis R. Alward.
[65] On this subject, see below, p. [133].
[66] The copy in question was lent by Tennyson to Jowett, and by him to Miss Nightingale.
[67] Lord Stanley had been President of the Board of Control in 1858, in which capacity he conducted the India Bill through the House of Commons, and on its passage he became the first Secretary of State for India.
[68] Above, p. 58.
[69] In one of Mr. Jowett's letters to Miss Nightingale (June 1866) there is this story of Lord Russell. “On the evening of the crisis he was not to be found. He had gone down to Richmond to hear the Nightingales (your cousins)! ‘And the provoking thing,’ as he wrote to a friend, ‘was that they did not sing that night.’”
[70] The substance of it may be found at p. 11 of the Memorandum (as cited above, p. [34] n.).
[71] Better known as the Marquis of Salisbury, to which title he succeeded in 1868.
[72] Lady Ely as lady-in-waiting on Queen Victoria had made Miss Nightingale's acquaintance at Balmoral in 1856.
[73] Daily Telegraph (foreign intelligence), June 12, 1866.