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Title: Chapters at the English lakes
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Rawnsley, H. D. (Hardwicke Drummond), 1851-1920
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Publisher: Glasgow, James MacLehose and Sons
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to be gleaned from Mrs.Fletchers Autohiography, of her youngest son,Angus. We learn therefrom that he was bornon the 6th October, 1799; that he saw the LakeCountry for the first time in the summer of 1806,when the whole Fletcher family were guestsof Mrs. Brudenell at Belmont, near Hawkshead.We hear of him next in June, 1829, as makinggood progress in his profession—the professionof a sculptor—hving happily and quietly with akind old friend of the family, Sir Robert Liston,who had fitted up a studio for him at MilburnTower, and found much interest in watching hisprogress. He and the lonely old man. SirRobert, were the fastest friends. In the year 1835, we find him with his motherand sisters at Keen Ground, near Hawkshead, alittle house taken for them by Mr. Harden,delighted to renew with them all their earlyassociations with that neighbourhood. He isestablished nov/ with an old servant of thefamily in a cottage at Oxton. Two years laterhe goes to London, * embarked in some specula-
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ANGUS FLETCHER AND THE LAKE DISTRICT 107 tion at his own desire, of what kind I knownot. In 1842, he is at Lancrigg, helping his motherto complete the furnishing of the house, andbeginning the gardening operations there. OnJanuary 11th, 1849, we hear from Crabbe Eobin-sons diary, that Angus Fletcher, together withDerwent Coleridge, Wordsworth and Quillinan,and the medical men, are present at the funeralof Hartley Coleridge in the Grasmere church-yard. Early in the same year Angus had beeninvited by the Colonisation Society in Londonto accompany some deputies from their com-mittee to visit the large manufacturing towns ofYorkshire, for the purpose of promoting theemigration to Australia of the unemployed opera-tives. It was then I think that he met W. E.Forster of Bradford, and from there offering hismother a visit to Lancrigg, he brought with him,at her request, Mr. Forster, to spend a weekin Easedale. Forster in turn brought with him anovel just published anonymously, Mary Barton,whi

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