"Ten Days in Paris," privately printed by Mr Harland in 1854.
"Being only twenty-three when I left Hull altogether, I had not made much progress in local antiquities. I had acquired a smattering of Anglo-Saxon, and had copied and corrected the translation in Tickell of a monumental inscription, in short-hand, to a lady, on a marble tablet in Sculcotes Church. Also one or two Anglo-Saxon, or early English, inscriptions in churches in the Holderness; one, I think, at or near Swine. I have somewhere the copy of an old deed of Myton, which I could send you some day, if you are at all interested in old deeds. I have one or two silver pennies of Hull (temp. Edward I.), and a few copper tokens of the last and present century. These constitute my Hull reliques" (5th, February 1867.)
"Between 1820 and 1830 there was a low comedian at the Theatre in Humber Street, named George Bailey, who used to sing comic songs; perhaps of his own writing; one of which I remember was called 'Hull is a wonderful town, oh!' Its burden was—
'And Geordie Bailey, singing gaily,
Hey down, ho down, derry, deny down,
Oh! this Hull is a wonderful town oh!'
I know Peter Arnull and Gawtrees best of the Hull editors" (28th February 1867).
"With one apprentice between us in time I was a successor of Etty in apprenticeship at the Hull Packet office. Etty gave a book containing some of his early chalk sketches to George Walker, who is, or was, lately in one of the Leeds printing offices" (25th May 1867).
"Your last letter of 25th November is before me, unanswered; another proof of the uncertainty of all earthly things. Since I received it you have lost your beloved father, my dear old friend. Amongst my papers, I found the other day a copy of some verses written in a volume of Burns's Poems, which I gave him in 1826. If the volume is in the house you will find the verses on the first blank
