Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal
“Temple, Tuesday morning.
“Dear Sir,
“I am much obliged by your note, although it was
wholly unnecessary to say a word on the alterations Mr. Campbell made in the dramatic article. I am exceedingly
glad that Miss Kemble should have the
pleasure of reading his richly-coloured praise of her, instead of my poorer
eulogy; and I only wish she may know to how celebrated a pen she is indebted
for such a testimony to her genius.
“I should be very glad to join the Literary Union,
under such auspices, but unless I can, without annoying my friends, retire from
the Verulam Club, of which I am a member, I should hesitate, as a married man,
to encroach further on the little time my professional engagements allow me to
be with my family.
“Believe me, dear Sir, very faithfully
yours,
Frances Butler [née Kemble] (1809-1893)
English actress and writer, daughter of Charles Kemble and Maria Theresa Kemble; on a
tour to America in 1834 she was unhappily married to Pierce Butler (1807-1867).
Thomas Campbell (1777-1844)
Scottish poet and man of letters; author of
The Pleasures of Hope
(1799),
Gertrude of Wyoming (1808) and lyric odes. He edited the
New Monthly Magazine (1821-30).
Cyrus Redding (1785-1870)
English journalist; he was a founding member of the Plymouth Institute, edited
Galignani's Messenger from 1815-18, and was the effective editor of
the
New Monthly Magazine (1821-30) and
The
Metropolitan (1831-33).
Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1795-1854)
English judge, dramatist, and friend of Charles Lamb who contributed articles to the
London Magazine and
New Monthly
Magazine.