POK CKNTKNARY EXERCISES. 



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FORD1IAM MANOR REFORMED CHURCH 



Virginia was buried here in the Valentine Vault 



From a Photograph bj A. E. Lickman 



to a friend. Two years later, in a fanciful love-letter to Mrs. 



Whitman, he placed this cottage in an idyllic setting- not unlike 

 its real surroundings, as the home of his happiest dreams. 

 This he afterwards enlarged into the sketch called Landor's 

 Cottage. Here the resemblance is even striking. 



He writes: " The main building was about twenty-four feet 

 lung and sixteen broad, certainly not more. It- total height 

 from the ground to the apex of the roof, could not have ex- 

 ceeded eighteen feet." He tells how from a tree in front of 



