“I love every thing that’s old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.”

(Oliver Goldsmith, 1730 -1774)

John Lentell

16th November, 1970

“We must touch his weaknesses with a delicate hand. There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence, that we can scarce weed out the fault without eradicating the virtue.”

(Oliver Goldsmith, 1730 -1774)

John Lentell

22nd November, 1969

“Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,

Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.”

(From The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith, 1730 – 1774)

John Lentell

7th March, 1969