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For some time before his death he seems to have had a foreboding that the end was not far distant. In one of the last conversations I had with him, certainly during my last visit at Easter 1883, he spoke of his mother's death, in its suddenness very like his own, and at the same age.
'We none of us get beyond seventy-five,' he said. At this age his eldest brother had died, four years before. And in a letter to one of his nieces, after speaking of the fatal malady by which the wife of a dear friend was attacked, he added, 'It seems strange to me to be so seemingly alert--certainly, alive--amid such fatalities with younger and stronger people. But, even while I say so, the hair may break, and the suspended Sword fall. If it would but do so at once, and effectually!' Sixteen days later his wish was fulfilled.
INDEX TO LETTERS
_To_ MISS AITKEN, 188
_To_ JOHN ALLEN, 63*, 70-72*, 74, 169*, 206, 219
_To_ MRS. CHARLES ALLEN, 7-9*, 14-16*
_To_ MISS ANNA BIDDELL, 134, 178, 179, 189, 205, 295, 304
_From_ CARLYLE, 135, 154, 155, 167, 175*
_To_ CARLYLE, 5, 128, 155, 165
_To_ E. B. COWELL, 1, 4*, 19*, 26, 44*, 52*, 57, 59*, 68*, 78*, 83-86*, 93-95*, 99, 103, 106*, 107, 111*, 128 _note_, 180, 185, 202, 270 _note_, 322 _note_
_To_ MRS. COWELL, 65*, 196, 216
_To_ GEORGE CRABBE, 17, 18, 21, 35, 39, 41, 42, 51, 57, 208 _note_
_To_ W. E. CROWFOOT, 118 _note_
_From_ W. B. DONNE, 169 _note_
_To_ W. B. DONNE, 3, 33, 40, 48, 66, 91, 164
_To_ FITZEDWARD HALL, 220*
_To_ LORD HOUGHTON, 285*
_To_ CHARLES KEENE, 280, 289-293
_To_ MRS. KEMBLE, 298, 305, 310-312, 320, 332-335
_To_ S. LAURENCE, 50, 55, 56, 113-116, 171, 190, 212, 277, 303, 337, 346
_To_ J. R. LOWELL, 224-226, 235, 245-249, 257, 260, 261, 266-272
_To_ C. E. NORTON, 157, 186, 190-192, 196-199, 203, 208, 213, 222, 229- 234, 241-244, 253-255, 258, 262, 275, 278, 281, 294, 298, 301, 315-318, 321, 327, 329, 330, 339, 340, 343
_To_ W. F. POLLOCK, 12, 96, 102, 117-121, 127, 130-132, 135, 137-152, 158- 163, 168, 172, 181, 307, 336, 338, 342
_To_ MISS S. F. SPEDDING, 313, 314
_To_ FREDERIC TENNYSON, 89
_To_ HALLAM (now LORD) TENNYSON, 328
_To_ MRS. ALFRED (now the DOWAGER LADY) TENNYSON, 308
_To_ MISS THACKERAY, 141 _note_, 207
_From_ W. H. THOMPSON, 174*
_To_ W. H. THOMPSON, 11, 24, 28-31, 34, 36*, 51, 73, 76, 77, 80*, 123, 177*, 296*
_To_ MRS. W. H. THOMPSON, 108, 183
_To_ R. C. TRENCH, 23, 62, 284, 287
_To_ H. SCHUTZ WILSON, 324
_To_ W. A. WRIGHT, 97, 126, 133, 217, 238, 239, 251, 322*
_The asterisks indicate the letters which are here printed for the first time_.
INDEX
ACADEMY (Royal), Exhibition of, i. 39
Acis and Galatea, i. 101, 102, 239
Aconites, 'New Year's Gifts,' ii. 180, 320
AEschylus, the geography of the Agamemnon, ii. 33-35; FitzGerald's translation of the Agamemnon, 109, 112, 162, 186, 188, 216; reviewed in the Nation, 224; Dr. Kennedy's translation, 259
Airy (William), at school with FitzGerald, i. 2; visits him at Woodbridge, ii. 66
Aitken (Lucy), her letters, ii. 64
Aldeburgh, ii. 290-292, 332; storm at, 342
Allegro and Penseroso, i. 153, 166
Allen (Anne), i. 72
--(Dr.), i. 79
--John, at Cambridge with FitzGerald, i. 2; letters to, 4, 5, etc.; his portrait by Laurence, ii. 15, 346
