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Memoir of Francis Hodgson
Duke of Rutland to Francis Hodgson, 23 December 1833
INTRODUCTION & INDEXES
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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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Stanton Woodhouse: December 23, 1833.

My dear sir,—I am exceedingly sorry that I was absent from home when you were so kind as to call here, and that my departure this morning will prevent me from the pleasure of seeing you during my stay in this county. I hope you do not believe that because I did not write to you some time since, I did not most sincerely sympathise with and feel for you. I made inquiries concerning you from our mutual friend Coke, and he gave me intelligence of you from time to time. He showed me your
218 MEMOIR OF REV. F. HODGSON.
letter to him a few days since, and I beg you to be assured that the only feeling I have on the subject of your Incumbency at Bakewell, is that of pride, at having been instrumental in placing so distinguished an ornament of the clerical profession there. I am very certain that your cession of that living, whenever it takes place, will occasion but one sensation of regret and concern.

Believe me, dear sir,
Your very faithful servant,
Rutland.