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Laman Blanchard III
Samuel Laman Blanchard to Peter George Patmore, 1 January 1843
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William Hazlitt IX
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“Jan. 1, 1843.

“Dear Patmore,—Friday is always a writing day with me, for the “Examiner” work, not to be done earlier or later in the week. So, unhappily (at least for me), I am obliged to write to ——, foregoing the proffered engagement. I had supposed you to be at Hendon or Harrow, by the account Hazlitt gave me, or I should have sought you in Southampton Street, whither, indeed, I was about to bend my steps, when I encountered the said Hazlitt. Ever since you strolled over here I have been “going” to do so. Your account, however, of the haymaking freaks amuses me mightily, and suggests a pretty moral as to the evils that wait on absentee landlords. The same story reminds me of Leigh Hunt’s anecdote of the two boys (his own cockney subjects), who, having reached Primrose Hill, dreaded penetrating farther into the wild and seemingly uninhabited
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country. ‘I’ve heard say there’s thieves,’ says one, ‘out in them fields past the hill.’ ‘Yes,’ cries the other, ‘and some say serpents!’ Your note, besides its pleasant enclosure, opens up the agreeable prospect of seeing you all out in your rural domain. But you are not leaving London! Think of the great Samuel. ‘Why, sir, the man who desires to leave London, desires to leave life.’

“Yours ever,
“L. Blanchard.

“What are you doing in the country?”