I left one volume of your Swift with good Mrs. Johnson at Norwich; and
the other with your Mother at Worship's house in Yarmouth. So I trust
you are in a fair way to get them again.
I sat through one Concert and one Oratorio; {198} and on Thursday went to
Yarmouth, which I took a great fancy to. The sands were very good, I
assure you; and then when one is weary of the sea, there is the good old
town to fall back on. There is Mr. Gooch the Bookseller too; he and his
books a great acquisition. I called on Dawson Turner, and in an
incredibly short space of time saw several books of coats of Arms,
Churches, Refectories, pyxes, cerements, etc.
Manage to read De Quincey's Article on Wordsworth in the last number of
Tail's Magazine. It is very incomplete, like all De Quincey's things,
but has grand things in it; grand sounds of sense if nothing else. I am
glad to see he sets up Daddy's early Ballads against the Excursion and
other Sermons.
I intend to leave this place the end of this week; and go, I suppose, to
Boulge; though I have yet a hankering to get a week by the sea, either at
Yarmouth or Southwold. . . . Don't you think 3 pounds very cheap for a
fine copy of Rushworth's Collections, eight volumes folio? I was tempted
to buy it if only for the bargain; for I only want to look through it
once.
_To F. Tennyson_.
BOULGE, WOODBRIDGE.
[After _Sept_. 1845.]