East Anglia by James Ewing Ritchie — Read

Distinguished people born there -- Its Puritans and Nonconformists -- The country round Covehithe -- Southwold -- Suffolk dialect -- The Great Eastern Railway.

In his published Memoirs, the great Metternich observes that if he had never been born he never could have loved or hated. Following so illustrious a precedent, I may observe that if I had not been born in East Anglia I never could have been an East Anglian. Whether I should have been wiser or better off had I been born elsewhere, is an interesting question, which, however, it is to be hoped the public will forgive me if I decline to discuss on the present occasion.