Mi ddl ehury, Vt., April 9,1919.. 



Dear Mr.. Deane:- 



Your kind note of April 3d and letter of yesterday, with your 



generous offer of Furness's Variorum edition of Richardllll Have touched 



a tender spot in my near t , ana I cannot deny myself the happiness of ac- 

 cepting the gift m a token of your long and valued friendship. Many 

 years ago (I thinK in 1666) I had the pleasure of seeing Forest in Rich- 

 ard III at the Boston theater, and it made a lasting impression on my 

 memory. I was not very well at the -time, in fact soon after had to call 

 in a doctor. When he heard I had recently seen Forest in Richard III, he 

 said it was enough to give a man nervous prostration. I have since 

 made a critical study of the play. You lenow for 12 years (1868-1680) 

 I was professor of Eng. Lit. in Hiaalebury College. 



It is a unique play, in which the genius of Shakespeare has faith- 

 fully presented the monstrous conception of a wicked king, that seems 

 to have had a moroid fascination for the English people. I think it com- 

 parable to the conception of ^epnistopheles wjich arose In the Middle | 

 Age in the legend of Dr. Faustus; or, to come down to more recent days, 

 to the conception that Jonathan Edwards 1 remorseless theology compelled 

 him to form regarding the aeity. I have just been reading in O.w. 

 Holmes's "Pages from an old volume of life?" his paper on Edwards. 



I am interested to hear of your fine photograph of Dr. Kennedy at 

 the age of 21. Oddly enough I have one of myself at that age. We Doth 

 graduated in 186')-; but he was 3 yrs. 2 rnos. older than I, 



I may possibly get down to Cambridge before May 10 to see my brother 

 John and my dear nephew Barron. If so, you may expect a call from me. * • 

 But if I do not see you, be assured that I shal'j alway3 feeep a warm place 

 for you in memory. 



With kind greetings to Miss Brown, ana Best wishes from Mrs Brain-- 



erd and myself , 



