Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. Her Literary Career To The Death Of Garriciand A.D. 1774—1779, In the beginning of June, 1776, Hannah More returned to Bristol after a six months' absence, four of which had been divided between the Adclphi and Hampton. It was remarked by her friends and family, that success and applause had made no change in her deportment. She brought back her native simplicity unsullied by the contact. The constitution of her mind was so opposed to affectation and art, that rank, literature, and fashion saw the bird escape as from the snare of the fowler, without losing a feather of its natural plumage, to soar at large in its own free element, and revisit its accustomed scenes. In April, 1777, she paid a visit to some relations in Norfolk, passing through London in her way: and we find several letters to her family during her visit, which give a very pleasant account of her tour, and of her intercourse with some of her kindred :— " 1777. " We arrived at Bungay a little before nine. In my way thither, Thorpe Hall, where my father was born, was pointed out to me. Our cousin Cotton's house is about a quarter of a mile out of the town ; it is large, elegant, and very handsomely furnished. Bungay is a much better town than I expected, very clean and pleasant. I am very glad, however, that the house is a little way out of it. " On Tuesday we went to dine at Mr. John Cotton's, a romantic farm-house, buried in the obscurity of a deep wood. A great number of Cottons were assembled, of all ages, sexes, and characters. The old lady of the house told me that my father lay at her brother's house the last night he spent in this country. She took a great deal of pains to explain to me genealogies, alliances, and intermarriages, not one word of which can I remember. The table and ...