[CHAPTER VIII.]
LETTERS, DIAGRAMS, ETC.
In a letter to a friend in Manchester, on the 17th January, 1875, Caldecott writes:—
"I stick pretty close to business, pretty much in that admirable and attentive manner which was the delight, the pride, the exultation of the great chiefs who strode it through the Manchester banking halls. Yes, I have not forsaken those gay—though perhaps, to the heart yearning to be fetterless, irksome—scenes without finding that the world ever requires toil from those sons of labour who would be successful.
"However, during the last year I managed to do a lot of work away from town, and enjoyed it. Sometimes it was expensive, because when at the cottage in Bucks, we of course mixed with the county families and had to 'keep a carriage' to return calls, return from dinner, and so forth."
At Farnham Royal—Returning Visits.
Here is "a meditation for the New Year"—