Little journeys in old New England . Dalton go with me;so doth my wife, a daughter of the lateChief Justice Eorster, whom I mar-ried since I saw your lordship. I choseher for her qualities of mind, and her un- 29 OLD NEW EiNTGLAND KOOFTKEES affected inclination to books. She goeswith great thankfulness, to live a plainfarmers life, and wear stuff of her ownspinning. I have presented her with aspinning-wheel. Her fortune was £2,000originally, but travelling and exchangehave reduced it to less than £1,500 Englishmoney. I have placed that, and about£600 of my own, in South Sea annuities. Thus in
Little journeys in old New England . Dalton go with me;so doth my wife, a daughter of the lateChief Justice Eorster, whom I mar-ried since I saw your lordship. I choseher for her qualities of mind, and her un- 29 OLD NEW EiNTGLAND KOOFTKEES affected inclination to books. She goeswith great thankfulness, to live a plainfarmers life, and wear stuff of her ownspinning. I have presented her with aspinning-wheel. Her fortune was £2,000originally, but travelling and exchangehave reduced it to less than £1,500 Englishmoney. I have placed that, and about£600 of my own, in South Sea annuities. Thus in the forty-fourth year of his life,in deep devotion to his Ideal, and full ofglowing visions of a Fifth Empire in theWest, Berkeley sailed for Khode Island ina hired ship of two hundred and fiftytons. The New England Courier of that timegives this picture of his disembarkationat Newport: Yesterday there arrivedhere Dean Berkeley, of Londonderry. Heis a gentleman of middle stature, of anagreeable, pleasant, and erect aspect. He30. OLD NEW ENGLAJS^D EOOFTREES was ushered into the town with a greatnumber of gentlemen, to whom he behavedhimself after a very complaisant manner. So favourably was Berkeley impressedby Newport that he wrote to Lord Perci-val: I should not demur about situatingour college here. And as it turned out,Newport was the place with which Berke-leys scheme was to be connected in it was there that he lived all threeyears of his stay, hopefully awaiting fromEngland the favourable news that nevercame. In loyal remembrance of the palace ofhis monarchs, he named his spacious homein the sequestered valley Whitehall. Herehe began domestic life, and became thefather of a family. The neighbouringgroves and the cliffs that skirt the coastoffered shade and silence and solitude verysoothing to his spirit, and one wonders not 31 OLD NEW ENGLAND EOOETKEES that he wrote, under the projecting rockthat still bears his name, ^ The MinutePhilosopher, one of his most
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