"
"I asked after the children, and Miss Southey said that the little boy
had called out to her, 'Oh! Aunt Katy, the Ameriky ladies have come!
"The three children were called in; the boy, about six years old, of
course wouldn't speak to me.
"The best portrait of Southey in his daughter's collection is a profile
in wax--a style that I have seen several times in England, and which I
think very pretty.
"We went down to Lodore, the scene of the poem, 'How does the Water come
Down,' etc., and found it about as large as the other waterfalls around
here--a little dripping of water among the stones.
COLLINGWOOD, Nov. 14, 1857.
MY DEAR FATHER: This is Sir John Herschel's place. I came last
night just at dusk.
According to English ways, I ought to have written a note,
naming the hour at which I should reach Etchingham, which is
four miles from Collingwood; but when I left Liverpool I went
directly on, and a letter would have arrived at the same time
that I did. I stopped in London one night only, changed my
lodging-house, that I might pay a pound a week only for letting
my trunk live in a room, instead of two pounds, and started off
again.
I reached Etchingham at ten minutes past four, took a cab, and
set off for Sir John's. It is a large brick house, no way
handsome, but surrounded by fine grounds, with beautiful trees
and a very large pond.
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