text: ;" stated that he was a stranger very desirous to see the lions of Nottingham of which he had heard so much; and having the honour of knowing her son and the advantage of being at the same college with him and having so often heard her name mentioned in their many conversations that he almost felt as if she was his intimate acquaintance had ventured to intrude upon her with a request that she would put him in the way of seeing the town and its manufactures to the best advantage