Sra,—I regret that a slip of the pen—I should have
supposed that Mr. Carl Haag would have seen to be no more—should have made "Dodgson " into " Dobson," and that my description of the gaze of the Prince of Wales should not have been more accurately given. As a matter of fact, however, the Prince Consort is waving one hand over the body of a dead stag, and the Prince of Wales, who has also one hand extended towards the beast's dead body, is smiling blandly, though at the Queen instead of at the Prince. But, with regard to the Palmyra pictures, I must, if you will allow me, give the reasons for my statement. I was brought up with the " studies " I speak of, and remember perfectly being informed by my father that there were large replicas of them in the Queen's possession. If, as I must suppose, this was an error, it was a strange one for my father to have made, especially as he knew the artist in question personally.—I am, Sir, yours:&c., HARRY QUILTER.
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