I  am  going  to  be  from  home  for  some  time  but  not
anywhere  in  your  direction.  The  birds  must  sing  and
the  furze  bloom  for  you  and  Fitzgerald  alone,  "  par  nobile
fratrum."  I  sincerely  hope  you  have  not  put  oflF  any
one  else  in  the  expectation  of  seeing  me :  tho'  I  did  not
state  as  much  in  my  note,  it  was  only  when  I  first
proposed  it  that  I  could  have  come  to  you.  Fortune
will  perhaps  bring  me  whiter  days.
I  know  not  whether  you  are  aware  that  Charles  has
become  an  independent  gentleman,  living  in  a  big  house
among  chalky  wolds  at  Caistor.  His  and  my  great
uncle,  Sam  Turner,  to  whom  he  was  heir,  died  some
little  time  ago  and  left  him  property,  but  he  complains

^  This,  the  Chancellor's  Medal  for  <<  Timbuctoo,^  was  given  back  to  him
by  his  cousin  Lewis  Fytche  in  1885.
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that  it  is  at  present  unavailable,  talks  of  debts  to  be
paid  etc.  etc.
John  Heath  writes  me  word  that  Mill  is  going
to  review  me  in  a  new  Magazine,  to  be  called  the
London  Review^  and  favourably ;  but  it  is  the  last  thing
I  wish  for,  and  I  would  that  you  or  some  other  who
may  be  friends  of  Mill  would  hint  as  much  to  him.
/  do  not  wish  to  be  dragged  forward  again  in  any  shape
before  the  reading  public  at  present^  particularly  on  the
score  of  my  old  poems,  most  of  which  I  have  so  cor-
rected (particularly  "  OEnone ")  as  to  make  them  much
less  imperfect,  which  you  who  are  a  wise  man  would
own  if  you  had  the  corrections.  I  may  very  possibly
send  you  these  some  time.
