No pursuit seems to have afforded him so much pleasure as that of making drawings of the seats of every nobleman and gentleman within his reach. Many of these he presented to their respective owners, and others he gave to illustrate the "History of Norfolk" a work then publishing in ten volumes, and for which he also supplied the letter-press describing the Hundreds of North and South Erpingham. From this he derived no other benefit than that of possessing a copy of the work: but while many a long winter's evening passed happily in gratifying his natural taste, he little dreamed that he was gaining a facility in expressing his ideas with his pencil, that would be of such important service to him in after-life. The daily increasing intimacy with a person of mind so superior as that of Mr. Wyndham, could not fail to excite a spirit of emulation, and to call into exercise powers which, but for this, might have lain dormant in a spot so secluded from the world.
