APPENDIX From among the very many affectionate and appreciative letters received after my father's death, I insert the following from the present Lord Tennyson, as it seems to me to give in brief my father's true character, and to show in some measure his love for the friend of his manhood, the great poet. Your father's is a great loss: and I mourn deeply for you and your sisters. But you have the comfort of knowing that his was on the whole a very happy, sunny life. With his boundless energy he enjoyed his work to the full, and he enjoyed his holidays to the full. Delighting in literature, he was able to read assiduously, widely, and thoroughly, and, with his keen and vivid intellect, to make admirable use of what he read. By his strong individuality, his rare simplicity of nature, his warm-hearted sympathies, he had attached to himself many true and loyal friends. Among these none valued his friendship more than my father and mother. Shortly before his death he lent me, with his accustomed kindness, several of my mother's letters to him, and I have been reading them, and dreaming of 'the days that are no more.' She writes on October 11, 1859: 'I am grieved that I have not said one word directly to yourself of all I hear of your great care, and your brotherly kindness for Alfred.' Again, on July 15, 1863, while my father was laid up with gout at your house in London: 'Your kindness and affection for Alfred have been so often proved that I have full faith in all the kind and affectionate things you now say, and from what I saw of Mrs. Palgrave and have heard of her, I think her not less kind and true than yourself.' And again, on June 28, 1885, when he had given her his 'Selection of Lyrical Poems by Lord Tennyson,' with its affectionate dedication: 'Accept my best thanks for the beautiful book, which I shall always value very much as a memorial of your unchanging friendship for us all, and as a reminder to myself of what I ought to be.' Let me say in conclusion that I am glad to hear you have undertaken to write a short account of your father's life and works; for, as he has often told me, you possessed his entire and absolute confidence. INDEX Boyle, G. D. (Dean of Salisbury), Bride of Lammermoor, the, 134 Brodrick, Hon. George, 219 Butcher, Professor, letter from, 210 Butterfield, W., 139 Byron, Lord, 143, 155, 156, 182 CAPEL-CURE, Mr., 133 Countess of, 216; letter from, Carlyle, Thomas, 37, 41, 64, 169 Ceriani, Padre, 180 Certosa di Pavia, 43, 197 Charterhouse, 5, 19 rick's Lyrical Poems), 148, 149 Clough, Arthur, 6, 31, 36, 38, 41, Coleridge, E., 30 Mr. Arthur, 167, 266 S. T., 28, 29 Collins, Professor J. Churton, 25 Colvin, Mr. Sidney, letter from, GELL, Mr. Lyttelton, 219 Gladstone, Rt. Hon. W. E., 33, 140 Glynne, Sir Stephen, 137 Golden Treasury, the, Second Grant, Sir Alexander, 25, 35, 47, Green, J. R., 154; letter from, Grisi, Mme., 42 JACKSON, Dr. (Rector of Exeter), Jacobson, Dr. (late Bishop of James, Mr. Henry, 219; letters Johnson, Dr. Samuel, 29, 127, 137 Mr. Manuel, 28 Jowett, Professor B., 26, 27, 33, KEATS, JOHN, 174, 175 Keble, Rev. John, 212 LAKE, CHARLES (late Dean of Lamartine, 16, 33 Lamb, Charles and Mary, 127 Lawless, Hon. E., 128 Lecky, Rt. Hon. W. E. H., 101; 191 Leighton, Lord, 156, 217, 253 Lightfoot, Dr. (late Bishop of Lind, Jenny (Mme. Goldschmidt), Lingen, Lord, 41, 44 T |