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Memoir of Francis Hodgson
Henry Drury to Francis Hodgson, [1829?]
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Preface
Vol. 1 Contents
Chapter I.
Chapter II. 1794-1807.
Chapter III. 1807-1808.
Chapter IV. 1808.
Chapter V. 1808-1809.
Chapter VI. 1810.
Chapter VII. 1811.
Chapter VIII. 1811.
Chapter IX. 1811.
Chapter X. 1811-12.
Chapter XI. 1812.
Chapter XII. 1812-13.
Chapter XIII. 1813-14.
Vol. 2 Contents
Chapter XIV. 1815-16.
Chapter XV. 1816-18.
Chapter XVI. 1815-22.
Chapter XVII. 1820.
Chapter XVIII. 1824-27.
Chapter XIX. 1827-1830
Chapter XX. 1830-36.
Chapter XXI. 1837-40.
Chapter XXII. 1840-47.
Chapter XXIII. 1840-52.
Index
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Derbyshire has become formidable in distance to one who has scaled the Alps, and looked down on the sun rising over the Adriatic. I certainly get less and less locomotive, and ‘I rue it,’ as Goodall did something else; but I long very much to be with you for a few days. I walk much, very much, less than I did, not so much from advancing age as from the want of a companion. I cannot bear to carry off the boys from their amusements, and my girls and wife are sorry amblers.

Butler has written to press us all, in the most warm letter, to come to him at Shrewsbury for a fortnight or more. My brother Charles is on the Rhine. But prudence says ‘no’ to a scheme which would otherwise be delightful; and which would bring us in certain contact with you. At present, I have promised Longley (who is also invited) to go with him: but it may not be. Well!! To-day is Montem. How different now from when we attended it as corporals or polemen! Do you remember Corporal Cheesement? Sir W. Milman
LETTER FROM LONSDALE.187
 and Polehampton dine with me to-morrow. Thirty-two years ago the former would not have sat down to table with the latter. There has been no reaction here whatever since Longley’s enthronement. I am rather in low spirits.

Ever your sincere old friend,
H. Drury.