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than some grapes and a pine, which, on one occasion, he sent me 

 as specimens of his own growing. 



With his time thus fully occupied, the only drawback in his new 

 home seems to have been the total separation from old associates, 

 and particularly those of kindred tastes, as, with the exception of 

 the occasion of his marriage with a daughter of Mr. Pymar, of West 

 Harliug, and once subsequently, he did not revisit Norfolk until 

 the state of his health compelled him to resign his situation and 

 return to his native county. Always susceptible of cold, and 

 predisposed, no doubt, to the disease which latterly developed 

 itself in his system, he was constitutionally unfitted for exposure 

 to the damp chilling fogs so common in Wales, and a permanent 

 deafness succeeding a severe influenza, proved both a cause of 

 anxiety to his friends and a sad trial to himself; for, in his letters 

 at that time, he adopted almost the words of Gilbert White, of 

 Selborne,* in lamenting a like affliction, " I lose all the pleasing 

 notices and little intimations arising from rural sounds ; and May 

 is to me as silent and mule with respect to the notes of birds, &c., 

 as August." This proved, however, but the forerunner of more 

 serious symptoms, and, though himself buoyed up with that strange 

 hope of ultimate recovery so usual in consumptive patients, it was 

 but too evident to those who saw him on his return to Norfolk in 

 1871, that he would not long be with us. Still he lingered on, at 

 his father-in-law's residence at West Hailing, till near the close 

 of the following year, when his death took place on the 19th of 

 November, in the forty-second year of his age ; and thus passed 

 away, in Christian reliance, on other merits than his own, " a good 

 man and a just," the moral of whose life, "magna est Veritas," 

 might be worthily inscribed upon his tomb. His remains were 

 interred, with other members of his family, in the cemetery at 

 Ipswich. 



Mr. Dix left no children, and, scarcely wiihin twelve months of 

 his own death, his wife, whose health had no doubt suffered from 

 her unceasing attendance upon him in his last illness, died very 

 suddenly, from the same insidious malady, on the 14th of August, 

 1873. 



Henry Stevenson. 



Norwich, September 30th, 1873. 



* Letter LXII. (to the Hon. Dailies Bamngton), 



