LETTER I 



Country Life at Riverside Painting out of doors Picture of "The 

 Garland " Number of Flowers blooming at Michaelmas 

 Jam-making Velvet Rose Approach of Winter Open-air 

 Fete at Lockinge. 



RIVERSIDE, WALLINGFORD, 

 tfh October 1885. 



DEAR MARCO I am extremely sorry that 

 you are unable to perform your promise of 

 paying me a visit here. I am not in the least, 

 as yet, tired of country life, and, were it not 

 for the pleasure of seeing my old friends, have 

 no wish to leave this place for a single day. 

 I ought to be happy, for, in the possession of 

 a nice house and pretty garden on the banks 

 of Thames, the wish of my boyhood has been 

 fulfilled. The moving waters across which I 



