[17] [My father was devoted to Henry Lushington, and pronounced him to be the best critic he had ever known. To him he dedicated “In Memoriam.”—Ed.]
[18] There are also the fine “beardless bust” by Tennyson’s friend, Thomas Woolner, R.A., and the earliest “beardless portrait” of him by his sister-in-law, Mrs. Weld.
[19] This was a misunderstanding on the part of FitzGerald.
[20] This account of the talk in the Woodbridge garden has been taken from a letter to me from the present Lord Tennyson.
[21] Sophocles, Ajax, 674-5.
[22] This old French paraphrase of Horace, Odes, I. xi., FitzGerald was very fond of, and quotes more than once in his letters.
[23] Of the Conversations with Eckermann, he said, “almost as repeatedly to be read as Boswell’s Johnson—a German Johnson—and (as with Boswell) more interesting to me in Eckermann’s Diary than in all his own famous works.”—Letters to Mrs. Kemble.
[24] [Some of these sayings appeared in my Memoir of my father.—Ed.]
[25] See Tennyson: a Memoir, by his Son, p. 373.
[26] See Tennyson: a Memoir, by his Son, p. 352.