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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: his last Illness came on him, he desired these two things to be enclosed in his Coffin.1 And I am ever yours E. F. G. To J. R. Lowell. WoODBRIDGE. April I My Dear (Sm ) (lowell) ? Your letter reached me just after hearing this year's first Nightingale in my Garden : both very welcome. I am very glad you did not feel bound to answer me before ; I should not write otherwise to you or to some very old Friends who, like most sensible men as they grow older, dislike all unnecessary writing more and more. So that I scarce remind them of myself more than once a year now. I shall feel sure of your good Will toward me whether you write or not ; as I do of theirs. Mr. Norton thinks, as a Gentleman should, that Keats' Letters should not have been published. I hope I should not have bought them, had I not gathered from the Reviews that they were not derogatory to him. You know, I suppose, that she of whom K. wrote about to others so warmly, his Charmian, was not Fanny Brawne. Some years ago Lord Houghton wroteme it was : but he is a busy man of the World, though really a very good Fellow : indeed, he did not deserve your skit about his ' Finsbury Circus gentility,' which I dare say you have forgotten. I have not seen him, any more than much older and dearer friends, for these twenty years : never indeed was very intimate with him ; but always found him a good natured, unaffected, man. He sent me a printed Copy of the first draught of the opening of Keats' Hyperion ; very different from the final one : if you wished, I would manage to send it to you, quarto size as it is. This now reminds me that I will ask his Lordship why it was not published (as I suppose it was not). For it ought to be. He said he did not know if it were not the second draught rather than the first. Bu...
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