Two Suffolk Friends

by Francis Hindes Groome

Transcribed from the 1895 William Blackwood and Sons edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

TWO SUFFOLK FRIENDS

by
FRANCIS HINDES GROOME

william blackwood and sons
edinburgh and london
mdcccxcv

All Rights reserved

to
MOWBRAY DONNE
the friend of these two friends

PREFACE.

Published originally in ‘Blackwood’s Magazine’ four and six years ago, and now a good deal extended, these two papers, I think, will be welcome to many in East Anglia who knew my father, and to more, the world over, who know FitzGerald’s letters and translations. I may say this with the better grace and greater confidence, as in both there is so much that is not mine, and both have already brought me so many kindly letters—from Freshwater, Putney Hill, Liverpool, Cambridge, Aldeburgh, Italy, the United States, India, and “other nations too tedious to mention.” All the illustrations