It is really a flower-garden becoming a duchess.

People are so good in ministering to this, my only amusement.

And the effect is heightened by passing through a labourer's cottage to get at it, for such our poor hut literally is.
[Footnote 1: This gentleman was an old and highly valued friend of my mother.] "You have heard, I suppose, that Mr.Wordsworth's eldest son, who married a daughter of Mr.Curwen, has lost nearly, if not quite, all of his wife's portion by the sea flowing in upon the mine, and has now nothing left but a living of 200_l._ given him by his father-in-law.
So are we all touched in turn.
"I have written to the Sedgwicks for the scarlet lilies mentioned by Miss Martineau in her American book.

Did you happen to see them in their glory?
of course they would flourish here; and having sent them primroses, cowslips, ivy, and many other English wild flowers, which took Theodore Sedgwick's fancy, I have a right to the return.

How glad I am to hear the good you tell me of my friend Tom.