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cessor — as Editor of " Fraser " — a poet whose 

 acquaintance I made at Tennyson's. But it was 

 a work of groans, lazy groans perhaps. Quarter- 

 lies, also, besiege me, mostly in vain. A life- 

 long friendship with Livingstone led me to do his 

 " Last Journals " in " The Quarterly." 4 Murray 

 told me Miss Livingstone that was— she, I 

 think, is now wedded — asked for the secret of the 

 authorship, and I felt well repaid by being told 

 that the family liked it better than any other 

 notice. Poor dear Livingstone ! He brought 

 me the tusk of an elephant, twisted like a cork- 

 screw, from his first great journey. My best 

 remembrances to your good and kind wife. I 

 hope we may meet next summer. I am not yet 

 bad enough to take flight to Brindisi ; but the 

 irritation and extra secretion of the " bronchials " 

 won't go at my age. 



1 Believe me, a sympathising but poor 

 " broken reed," 



* Richard Owen. 



' P.S. — Our good friend ''Orion's" 5 reve- 

 lations of Mrs. B. make me afraid of putting pen 

 to paper.' 



In 1876 Owen brought out a ' Descriptive and 

 Illustrated Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia of 



4 Review of H. Waller's The 1865 to his Death. 

 Last Journals of David Living- ° T. H. Home. 



stone in Ce?ttral Africa, from 



