LETTERS FROM ROME ΤΟ FRIENDS IN ENGLAND. BY THE REV. JOHN W. BURGON, M.A. FELLOW OF ORIEL COLLEGE. I did not without regret give it my last farewell. JOHN EVELYN (1645) LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1862. 200.9.92 110 ΤΟ THE ENGLISH CONGREGATION AT ROME, (FEBRUARY-MAY, 1860;) THE MOST BEAUTIFUL FLOCK I EVER SHEPHERDED; IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF THE DAYS WHICH THEIR KINDNESS MADE PASSING SWEET TO ME: AND WITH A HUMBLE PRAYER THAT, TO SOME MEMBERS OF THAT FLOCK AT LEAST, THE IMPERFECT MINISTRATIONS OF THOSE DAYS Oriel, 1861. MAY NOT HAVE BEEN UNBLESSED. IN strictness, these were not "Letters from Rome." A traveller who resides but a short time in that wondrous city, has no leisure to prepare Letters for the press. Scarcely is he able to jot down, with punctuality, the impressions of the passing hour; especially if, to every other claim on his time, are superadded the duties,-(let me rather say, the privileges,) of a Chaplain. The title of the present volume, nevertheless, sufficiently describes its general character. Its miscellaneous contents must be ascertained from an inspection of the headings of its chapters. At Rome indeed, in the present instance, the intention of some day publishing anything about Rome, was but faintly entertained, if at all. Friends put such thoughts into one's head. The present writer, even on his return to England, by no means contemplated so serious a respon |