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Title: Two Suffolk Friends

Author: Francis Hindes Groome

Release Date: February 13, 2007 [eBook #20576]

Language: English

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Transcribed from the 1895 William Blackwood and Sons edition by David
Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

TWO SUFFOLK FRIENDS

BY
FRANCIS HINDES GROOME

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS
EDINBURGH AND LONDON
MDCCCXCV

_All Rights reserved_

TO
MOWBRAY DONNE
THE FRIEND OF THESE TWO FRIENDS

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PREFACE.

Published originally in 'Blackwood's Magazine' four and six years ago,
and now a good deal extended, these two papers, I think, will be welcome
to many in East Anglia who knew my father, and to more, the world over,
who know FitzGerald's letters and translations. I may say this with the
better grace and greater confidence, as in both there is so much that is
not mine, and both have already brought me so many kindly letters--from
Freshwater, Putney Hill, Liverpool, Cambridge, Aldeburgh, Italy, the
United States, India, and "other nations too tedious to mention." All
the illustrations have been made in Bohemia from photographs taken by my
elder sister, except Nos. 6, 8, and 9, the first of which is from the
well-known photograph of FitzGerald by Cade of Ipswich, whilst the other
two I owe to my friend, Mr Edward Clodd.

F. H. G.

A SUFFOLK PARSON.

The chief aim of this essay is to present to a larger public than the
readers of a country newspaper my father's Suffolk stories; but those
stories may well be prefaced by a sketch of my father's life. Such a
sketch I wrote shortly after his death, for the great 'Dictionary of
National Biography.' It runs thus:--

"Robert Hindes Groome, Archdeacon of Suffolk, was born at Framlingham
in 1810. Of Aldeburgh ancestry, he was the second son of the Rev.
John Hindes Groome, ex-fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and
rector for twenty-six years of Earl Soham and Monk Soham in Suffolk.
From Norwich school he passed