[10] It is curious that another Shrewsbury boy should have been impressed by this military funeral; Mr. Gretton, in his Memory's Harkback, says that the scene is so strongly impressed on his mind that he could "walk straight to the spot in St. Chad's churchyard where the poor fellow was buried." The soldier was an Inniskilling Dragoon, and the officer in command had been recently wounded at Waterloo, where his corps did good service against the French Cuirassiers.
[11] He lodged at Mrs. Mackay's, 11, Lothian Street. What little the records of Edinburgh University can reveal has been published in the Edinburgh Weekly Dispatch, May 22, 1888; and in the St. James's Gazette, February 16, 1888. From the latter journal it appears that he and his brother Erasmus made more use of the library than was usual among the students of their time.
[12] I have heard him call to mind the pride he felt at the results of the successful treatment of a whole family with tartar emetic.—F. D.
[13] Dr. Coldstream died September 17, 1863; see Crown 16mo. Book Tract. No. 19 of the Religious Tract Society (no date).
[14] The society was founded in 1823, and expired about 1848 (Edinburgh Weekly Dispatch, May 22, 1888).
[15] Josiah Wedgwood, the son of the founder of the Etruria Works.
Justum et tenacem propositi virum
Non civium ardor prava jubentium,
Non vultus instantis tyranni
Mente quatit solida.
[17] Tenth in the list of January 1831.
[18] I gather from some of my father's contemporaries that he has exaggerated the Bacchanalian nature of those parties.—F. D.