I did worship the Pentland, Cheviot, and Eildon,
Hills, more for their Associations than themselves.
They are not big enough for that.

I saw little in London: the Academy Pictures even
below the average, I thought: only a Picture by
Millais of an old Sea Captain ¹ being read to by his
Daughter which moistened my Eyes. I thought she
was reading him the Bible, which he seemed half
listening to, half rambling over his past Life: but I
am told (I had no Catalogue) that she was reading
about the North West Passage. There were three deep
of Bonnets before Miss Thompson's famous Roll Call
of the Guards in the Crimea; so I did not wait till
they fell away. ²

Yours always
E. F.G.

LOWESTOFT: Aug. 24, [1874.]

DEAR MRS. KEMBLE,
Your letter reached me this morning: and you see
I lose no time in telling you that, as I hear from
Pollock, Donne is allowed £350 a year retiring Pen-
sion. So I think neither he nor his friends have any
reason to complain. His successor in the office is
named (I think) 'Piggott' ³ -- Pollock thinks a good
choice. Lord Hertford brought the old and the new
Examiners together to Dinner: and all went off well.

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