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 i85o i7S my father and communicated to the Illustrated London News, which, of course, did not reproduce the colours. A letter from my mother, dated 20th April, 1850, gives some particulars of the degradation of the Villa. " Mrs. Trollope and the Monros were my last visitors to-day. The former has been here many times, and I try to leave as pleasant an impression on her mind as possible on each repeated visit that she makes, so that if she shows me up with the rest of her Pau acquaintance in her next work—and some say there is one on the stocks—she may give a pleasant portraiture of me to the world. Edward is high in her good graces, as he has very civilly carried her all the pretty drawings of the mosaics he has made, before posting them off to the Illustrated London News.