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Memoir of Francis Hodgson
Francis Hodgson to Thomas Denman, 8 December 1828
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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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Bakewell: Dec. 8, 1828.

My dear Denman,—It is with feelings of the most unfeigned delight that I have just read in the papers the announcement of the performance of a long-delayed act of justice. If what is said of a high personage be true, his conduct on this occasion enhances the value of the act, and makes it approach to an amende honorable. For your friends, although they must indeed feel on this occasion that ‘Worth makes the man etc.,’ 2 yet as Prunella has its value too, they cannot but rejoice at its falling on such worthy shoulders. God bless you,

1 Quoted by Sir Joseph Arnould in his Life of Lord Denman.

2
‘Worth makes the man, the want of it the fellow;
The rest is all but leather and Prunella.’

178 MEMOIR OF REV. F. HODGSON.
my dear Denman, and your wife and children. Mrs. Hodgson joins cordially in the above, and

I am
Yours affectionately,
F. Hodgson.