for another, took great delight in gazing at a life-size model of a
sea-captain clad in yellow oil-skins and a Sou'wester. It was
executed in that style of art that you so greatly admire in the
Italian Churches, and was so good a likeness of _you_ that I think you
must have sat for it. The serious occupations of my day were having
dinner and tea, and the relaxations, buying shrimps in the fish-market
and then giving them to the sea-gulls and cormorants. My most exalted
pleasure was to look at your effigy, which I should like to be able to
buy, though, as I have not a private chapel in my castle, I hardly
know where I could put it if I had it. Upon the whole I enjoyed
myself, but I am glad to hear that the Exhibition is to be closed to-
day, so that I cannot by any possibility go there again.

_Butler to Miss Savage_.

5_th_ _November_, 1883: I believe I am very like a sea-captain. Jones
began a likeness of me not long since, which I will show you next time
you come and see me, which is also very like a portrait of a
sea-captain.

56. Sketch-portrait of Robert Doncaster.

On the same mount with no. 40. A tracing is among the miscellaneous
papers given to St. John's. This sketch of Robert was done, I suspect,
with the camera lucida, and if so its date must be about 1882-3. Robert
Doncaster was the husband of Mrs. Corrie; that is to say Mrs. Corrie, who
was Butler's laundress in Clifford's Inn, "lost" her husband. After a
suitable interval it was assumed that he was dead and she married Robert
Doncaster and was known as Mrs. Doncaster. Robert, who was a half-witted
old man, used to hang about the place, do odd jobs, and make himself
fairly useful. He died in 1886.

57. Water-colour: Pinner. 1883.

SAMUEL BUTLER

58. Oil Painting: Edward James Jones.

Inscribed thus: "Portrait of E. J. Jones, Esq., of the Indian Geological
Survey, Aet. Suae 24, painted by S. Butler, November, 1883." The date is
not clearly written, but it must be 1883, because my brother Edward, born
5th September, 1859, was twenty-four in 1883, and in November 1883 he
went to Calcutta, having obtained an appointment on the Geological
Survey. Butler painted the portrait just before he started.

59. Oil Painting: Chiavenna. 1887.

It looks in some lights like 1881, but in other lights 1887, and it must
be 1887. Butler did not go abroad in 1881 and he was at Chiavenna in
1887.