Notes and Queries, Number 49, October 5, 1850 by Various
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slightest doubt of the correctness of his own statement, of its having
been discovered by him fifty years before. P. 166. _Dulwich Gallery._--This is amongst the unfortunate consequences of taking lists upon trust. Poor Tom Hurst[1] has not been in the churchyard these last eight years--except the three last in his grave. The last five years of his life were spent in a comfortable asylum, as "a poor brother of the Charterhouse." He was one of the victims of the "panic of 1825;" and though the spirit of speculation never left him, he always failed to recover his position. He is referred to here, however, to call Mr. Cunningham's attention to the necessity, in a _Hand-book_ especially, of referring his readers correctly to the places at which _tickets_ are to be obtained for any purpose whatever. It discourages the visitor to London when he is thus "sent upon a fool's errand;" and the Cockney himself is not in quite so good a humour with the author for being sent a few steps out of his way. P. 190. _Rogers_--a Cockney by inference. I {291} should like to see this more decidedly established. I am aware that it is distinctly so stated by Chambers and by Wilkinson; but a remark once made to me by Mrs. Glendinning (the wife of Glendinning, the printer, of Hatton Garden) still leads me to press the inquiry. P. 191.--_The Free Trade Club_ was dissolved before the publication of this edition of the _Handbook_. P. 192.--And to Sir John Herschel, on his return from the Cape of Good Hope. P. 210. _Royal Society._--From a letter of Dr. Charles Hutton, in the |
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