Clerk of the Petty Bag. Petty Bag Office, Rolls Yard
Groom in Waiting.
The Lord Chamberlain's Department, Office, Stable Yard, St. James's Palace
No one can say the number of books, papers, scraps, &c., to which an intrinsic value has been contributed by the great humourist's penchant for exercising his graphic fancy.
CHAPTER XIX.
Thackeray as a Traveller—Journey in Youth from India to England—Little Travels at Home—Sojourn in Germany—French Trips—Residence in Paris—Studies in Rome—Sketches and Scribblings in Guide-Books—Little Tours and Wayside Studies—Brussels—Ghent and the Béguines—Bruges—Croquis in Murray's 'Handbooks to the Continent'—Up the Rhine—'From Cornhill to Grand Cairo'—Journeys to America—Switzerland—'A Leaf out of a Sketch-Book'—The Grisons—Verona—'Roundabout Journeys'—Belgium and Holland.