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Letters of Edward Fitzgerald to Fanny Kemble, 1871-1883
Letters of Edward Fitzgerald to Fanny Kemble 18711883 Author:Edward FitzGerald Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: WOODBRIDGE,//y 4, [187!.] Dear Mrs. Kemble, I asked Donne to tell you, if he found opportunity, that some two months ago I wrote you a letter, but found it... more » so empty and dull that I would not send it to extort the 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 then. Now that is overl—I hope to the satisfaction of you all—and I will say my little say, and you will have to Reply, according to your own Law of Mede and Persian. It is a shame that one should only have oneself to talk about; and yet that is all I have; so it shall be short. If you will but tell me of yourself, who have read, and seen, and done, so much more, you will find much more matter for your pen, and also for my entertainment. Well, I Have sold my dear little Ship,2 because I could not employ my Eyes with reading in her Cabin, where I had nothing else to do. I think those Eyesbegan to get better directly I had written to agree to the Man's proposal. Anyhow, the thing is done; and so now I betake myself to a Boat, whether on this River here, or on the Sea at the Mouth of it. 1 Mrs. Kemble's daughter, Frances Butkr, was married to the Hon. and Rev. James Wentworth Leigh, now Dean of Hereford, a9th June 1871. 2 See ' Letters,' ii. 126. Books you see I have nothing to say about. The Boy who came to read to me made such blundering Work that I was forced to confine him to a Newspaper, where his Blunders were often as entertaining as the Text which he mistook. We had ' hangarues' in the French Assembly, and, on one occasion, ' 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 ...« less