Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble (1871-1883)

e, July 4

Mrs.

he Reply which you feel bound to give. I should have written to tell you so myself; but I heard from Donne of the Wedding soon about to be, and I would not intrude th

so it shall be short. If you will but tell me of yourself, who have read, and seen, and don

othing else to do. I think those Eyes began to get better directly I had written to agree to the Man's proposal. Anyhow

'ironclad Laughter from the Extreme Left.' Once again, at the conclusion of the London news, 'Consolations closed at 91, ex Div.'-And so on. You know how illiterate People will jump at a Word they don't know, and twist it in[to] some word they are familiar with. I was telling some of these

ught he looked very jaded: which I could not wonder at. Donne, however, writes as if in good Spirits-brave Man as

hen you will go to Rome again, with its new Dynasty installed in it. I fancy I s

t sight of. He made far too long work of Garrick. I should have thought the Booksellers did not fin

ew thing we have in Woodbridge is a Waxen Bust (Lady, of course) at the little Hairdresser's opposite. She turns slowly round, to our wonder and delight; and I caught the little B

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