erily believe, the smallest library of any man in London who is
by way of being literary."

10. Water-colour: Dieppe, The Castle, 1866.

Butler was at Dieppe with Pauli in 1866. (_Memoir_, ch. viii.)

11. Small water-colour drawing: Dieppe, 1866.

This is in the portfolio of miscellaneous drawings, etc., by Butler,
Gogin, and Sadler, no. 81.

12. Oil Painting: Two heads done as a study at Heatherley's.

I showed this to Gaetano Meo, and he remembered that the man was
Calorossi, a model, whose brother went to Paris and became known as the
proprietor of a studio there. The woman, he said, was Maria, another
model. The background is Dieppe. I suppose that Butler did this study
in the autumn of 1866, using nos. 10 and 11, the water-colours of Dieppe,
or some other sketch made on the spot, for the background. The idea was
to make portraits of two heads with a landscape background in the manner
of Giovanni Bellini.

13. Drawing of a cast of the Antinous as Hermes.

Inscribed "Samuel Butler for probationership, December 28th 1868." Done,
I suppose, at South Kensington.

14. Drawing of a hand and foot.

Probably also done at South Kensington.

15. Black and white drawing of a fir tree.

This, I suspect, was made while Butler was under the influence of
Ruskin's _Elements of Drawing_--say about 1870. He threw off that
influence later.

16. Four water-colour notes in one frame.

One is inscribed "S.B." and another "Kingston, near Lewes." I suppose
that they are all on the South Downs, and they are all early--say 1870.

JAMES FERGUSON

17. Crayon drawing: Butler playing Handel, 1870 (?).

Reproduced in the _Memoir_ (I. ix.). Ferguson was a fellow art-student
with Butler.

SAMUEL BUTLER

18. Oil Painting: The Valle di Sambucco, above Fusio.

The sambucco or sambuco is the elder tree. Butler, writing of this
valley (_Alps and Sanctuaries_, ch. xxvi.; new ed. ch. xxv.), says:
"Here, even in summer, the evening air will be crisp, and the dew will
form as soon as the sun goes off; but the mountains at one end of it will
keep the last rays of the sun. It is then the valley is at its best,
especially if the goats and cattle are coming together to be milked."

19. Water-colour: The Rocca Borromeo, Angera, Lago Maggiore. Entrance
to the Castle. 1871.

The birthplace of S. Carlo Borromeo. It was over this gateway as well as
over the gateway of Fenis (no. 53), that he told me the