. . . I suppose by a 'Minster Pool' in Lichfield you mean a select
coterie of Prebends, Canons, etc. These would never trouble me. I
should much prefer the society of the Doctor, the Lawyer (if tolerably
honest) and the singing men. I love a small Cathedral town; and the
dignified respectability of the Church potentates is a part of the
pleasure. I sometimes think of Salisbury: and have altogether long had
an idea of settling at forty years old. Perhaps it will be at
Woodbridge, after all!
_To F. Tennyson_.
BOULGE, _May_ 4, 1848.