U.EtES BY OZIAS HUMPHRY.
[TO THE EDITOR OF TER "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Will you allow me to appeal to any of your readers con- cerning a collection of miniatures by Ozias Humphry which I am particularly anxious to find ? I am engaged in preparing a book on this important miniature painter, and in 1845 Mr. Charles Hampden Turner, of Rook's Nest, Godstone, succeeded, on the death of Mr. William ITpcott, to a most important collection of finished and unfinished miniatures by Humphry, which had been bequeathed by Mr. 17pcott to him, together with some volumes of Humphry's sketches, his colour book, colours, and brushes. I have a list of these miniatures, and many of them were exhibited at South Kensington in 1865. When Mr. O'Donoghue wrote the article on Humphry for the Dictionary of National Biography, he had some evidence that this collection was still in the possession of Mr. Turner's descendants, but as he has not retained his papers concerning the article he is unable to help mo. He also had a letter from a Mr. Winslow Jones concerning Humphry, but unfor- tunately is not able to tell me what this letter contained, nor to give me the address of the writer. It is to the highest degree important that I should find out where these miniatures are, and if possible see them, and I appeal to any of your readers, asking them if they will be good enough to help me in my search for
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