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Memoir of Francis Hodgson
Bishop Samuel Butler to Francis Hodgson, 4 December 1832
INTRODUCTION & INDEXES
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Preface
Vol. 1 Contents
Chapter I.
Chapter II. 1794-1807.
Chapter III. 1807-1808.
Chapter IV. 1808.
Chapter V. 1808-1809.
Chapter VI. 1810.
Chapter VII. 1811.
Chapter VIII. 1811.
Chapter IX. 1811.
Chapter X. 1811-12.
Chapter XI. 1812.
Chapter XII. 1812-13.
Chapter XIII. 1813-14.
Vol. 2 Contents
Chapter XIV. 1815-16.
Chapter XV. 1816-18.
Chapter XVI. 1815-22.
Chapter XVII. 1820.
Chapter XVIII. 1824-27.
Chapter XIX. 1827-1830
Chapter XX. 1830-36.
Chapter XXI. 1837-40.
Chapter XXII. 1840-47.
Chapter XXIII. 1840-52.
Index
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December 4, 1832.

I think I sent you a paper with an account of the royal visit. It was all couleur de rose, as was that of the Duke of Sussex six weeks before, but His Royal Highness has been long a kind and gracious friend to me. I am getting up a local committee for Abbotsford, which brings me to talk of books. Have you read the ‘String of Pearls?’ pray do. The ‘Highland Smugglers,’—also worthy of perusal, and ‘Zohrab, the Hostage’—very. Next to books, elections. We shall send probably eleven, very possibly twelve, ultra Tories from this county, which sends in all twelve members. At Cambridge I am in hopes we shall turn out one ultra, and I hope we shall not try for more, for if we do we shall lose both. As to mater ecclcsia—quæstio vexatissima, brother
LETTER FROM THE DUKE OF RUTLAND.217
 Francisce, Lord Henley is clearly the tool of the saints to which party he belongs, and they, having purchased up almost all the small livings that can be sold, would be very glad to have them enlarged out of the spoils of cathedrals.