TC-C&H [CAH], 8 Jan. MS: Strouse. Hitherto unpd. Written on the back of a letter addressed to TC in care of Chapman & Hall. Dated by Richard Owen's comments on Hutson; see below.

1. The undated letter was addressed “For the Editor of ‘Latter-day Pamphlets’” and signed “Henry Hutson Senr / Proprietor of ‘Annesley’ Estate / Walaghat / Koondah mountains [Demerara, British Guiana],” identifying “Annesley” as “named after ‘Annesley wood’ Nottinghamshire, the seat of Byron's first love.” He wrote: “Invocation / 1 / A blue eyed maid! a mountain stream / Such was my earliest boyish dream! / And now I live in distant woods / But have not yet a woodland queen / To set with me by roaring floods / Or ride around through upland green. / 2 / How beautiful! serenely kind / The image of a tranquil mind, / As beam's in beauty's eye / For such is love and constancy.” For Richard Owen's comments on Hutson, who was being cared for by his relatives in Demerara, see TC to JAC, 21 Dec. 1850.