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so peculiar a name was altered to Hofflech. (I am not quite sure as to the precise spelling of this.)

That historic house still stands in Chatham Street, Ramsgate, and it has often been a matter of wonderment to me that walls which have sheltered a future Queen of England should have had no commemorative tablet affixed to mark so interesting an event. It is a picturesque old place, and might well be thus suitably honoured. CECIL CLARKE.

ST. EXPEDITES. Something has already been said about the vagueness which sur- rounds his history (8 th S. xii. 425). I hear from Paris that he is about to be de- canonized. Further particulars are desirable.

W. C. B.

STEVENSON'S 'NEW ARABIAN NIGHTS.' In my * Bibliography o^ Robert Louis Steven- son,' 1903, p. 18, 1 pointed out that the end- papers of the earliest issue of vol. i. were yellow, but that in vol. ii. and in later issues of vol. i. they were of a conventional leaf design, printed in warm grey and white. A careful examination has revealed another point which differentiates the earliest issue of vol. i., first edition, from later issues. For some reason or other, the original quarter- sheet, consisting of pp. 5, 6, 11, and 12, was cancelled and reprinted. In the original there is no signature at the foot of p. 5, but in the reprint will be found "Vol. I. *B 3." The type is also slightly thicker than in the earliest issue. It may also be noted that in this issue the leaf S 8 was cancelled, whereas in later issues it was preserved and the publishers' device printed in centre of recto, as in vol. i. of the second edition. These de- tails appear very trifling, but amateurs of first editions may consider them important. W. F. PRIDEAUX.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

"Pip." This word, in the sense of "seed of an apple " or the like, appears to be of very recent formation in English. I have not found it in any dictionary before 1818, when Todd has it as " A kernel in an apple. So children call them." In other words, it appears to have been known to Todd only as a nursery word for the literary English pippin. It was unknown to Webster in 1828. Pip was, however, actually used by fruit

growers somewhat earlier, for in a work of 1802, Forsyth l On Fruit Trees, 1 chap, vi., I find mention of "the pip or seed of the golden pippin." I shall be glad if any reader of ' N. & Q. 7 can send us an earlier example of '* pip," or reference for it, in this sense. Books on apples, pears, or other fruit might be usefully searched. Please to note that we do not want pip in any other sense. There are at least two other English words of the same form, viz., pip t the name of a disease to which chickens especially are liable, and pip, one of the spots on dice, dominoes, or cards ; also a spot on the skin, and one corolla of a clustered flower, as a cowslip pip. These are much older words, and infor- mation about them is not wanted.

J. A. H. MURRAY.

" Pious FOUNDER." Where, when, or of whom was this appellation first used 1 Good quotations for it are wanted.

J. A. H. MURRAY.

THE WATERLOO CAMPAIGN. The letter printed below never reached its addressee, as the steamer carrying it went down to the bottom of the sea, and was raised only last year. Books and papers found therein were bought by a Berlin bookseller, from whom a private gentleman acquired the letter in question. The paper is in a remarkably good state of preservation. The letter runs thus :

Calcot Park, near Reading, Nov. 20, 1869.

YOUR EXCELLENCY, I have taken the liberty of ordering my bookseller to send you a little book written on the campaign of 1815 by a brother officer. I believe it is the most impartial account ever written of that celebrated campaign, and it is certainly the only one in the English language that does justice to our noble and gallant allies, Marshal Blucher and his brave army. I dare say, however, that your Excellency has already read it ; should such be the case, I still hope you will deem it worthy of a place in your library. Since my re- turn to England I have had great pleasure in testifying to the magnificence of your noble army, particularly of your superb infantry, and also to the princely hospitality, courteous- ness, and good will shown to us as English officers.

LI11I1K Ul II1U Jjicc*oa*iiu V11UV A i/Mioo^vt. i LI h^v^ywui w*|

1869, with the Prussian 7th Corps d'Armee and with your Excellency at the Palace of Miinster.

I beg to be remembered most kindly to Lady Zastrow, and remain your Excellency's humble servant,

TALBOT ASHLEY Cox, Major.

H.B.M. 2nd Bat. 3rd Regt. ("The Buffs").

The intended receiver was General von Zastrow, commanding the 7th Prussian Corps in 1869, and residing at Miinster, in West-