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leisure time in contemplation, and in the amuse- 

 ments of fishing and gardening, then I shall think 

 that Providence has been pleased to single me out 

 to be one of the happiest of men. I intend to go 

 to press in the spring with a new edition of the 

 Birds, printed with the same kind of small type as 

 the Quadrupeds: the two volumes in one volume 

 demy. I wish much to have one of your books, 

 but I cannot engage in the sale of them, being 

 sufficiently embarrassed with my own publications. 



T. B. 



THOMAS BEWICK TO ROBERT ELIOT BEWICK. 



CHILLINGHAM 23 June, 1814 

 DEAR ROBERT 



I was disappointed at not seeing you 

 before I left home, I had missed you in Gates- 

 head on my way to dinner After running about 

 various pieces of Business I called upon Mr. 

 Bailey at the Hour appointed & we immediately 

 set oif. It was a dull, dark, wet, Evng. & 

 not much to see from the Chaise window 

 few hawthorns in blow, but abundance of 

 " Blossom'd Whins unprofitably gay " I as 

 usual kept myself busied with my own thout's 

 while Mr. B. most of the way, slept comfort- 

 ably in the corner beside me We put up at 

 Mrs. Sunderland, who was very kind but told us 

 she was much aifraid she had not a spare Bed for 

 each of us, for she had the whole of the North- 

 umberland officers in her house at the time, on 

 their march to Alnwick to be broke up I think 



