We like Mr.Tennyson extremely, and he is a constant visitor of ours: the poet's elder brother.

By the way, the new edition of the Ode on the Duke of Wellington seems to contain wonderful strokes of improvement.

Have you seen it?
As to Alexandre Dumas, Fils, I hope it is not true that he is in any scrape from the cause you mention.

He is very clever, and I have a feeling for him for his father's sake as well as because he presents a rare instance of intellectual heirship.

Didn't I tell you of the prodigious success of his drama of the 'Dame aux Camelias,' which ran about a hundred nights last year, and is running again?
how there were caricatures on the boulevards, showing the public of the pit holding up umbrellas to protect themselves from the tears rained down by the public of the boxes?
how the President of the Republic went to see, and sent a bracelet to the first actress, and how the English newspapers called him immoral for it?
how I went to see, myself, and cried so that I was ill for two days and how my aunt called _me_ immoral for it?
I was properly lectured, I assure you.