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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. i. MAR. 12, 1910.

of England's struggle with Napoleon the Baltic trade of Isaac Solly & Sons, of which firm Edward was a member, was very profitable, owing to large contracts with the British Government for timber for ship- building ; and during the same period, in consequence of the constant state of war and general scarcity of money on the Continent, there was an unrivalled opportunity for acquiring great works of art on favourable terms. J. RAYMOND SOLLY.

Union Club, S.W.

Mr. Solly died before May, 1847, and a careful examination of the indexes to The Gentlemarfs Magazine of that year and two or three preceding years would perhaps furnish the information MB. CLAY requires. Mr. Solly lived at No. 7, Curzon Street, May- fair. I possess two of his catalogues. The earlier is * A Descriptive Catalogue of some Paintings of the Rafaelle Period, l a privately printed hand-list of four quarto pages, in which 26 pictures are described. A few of these were purchased by the Earl of North- wick ; but the greater number appeared subsequently the above-named catalogue is undated at Christie's on 8 May, 1847. This sale consisted of 42 lots, fully described. A report of the sale will be found in The Art Union of 1847, pp. 215-16. Christie's Sale Catalogue has a passage referring to Mr. Solly, "whose profound knowledge and dis- criminating taste, particularly in Italian art, have established the reputation of this noble collection throughout Europe.'' In the Art Library of the Victoria and Albert Museum there are copies of the catalogues of picture sales held on behalf of Mr. Solly in 1825 and 1837, but apparently neither of those which I possess.

See also G. F. Waagen, ' Works of Art and Artists in England/ 1838, ii. 186-95.

W. ROBEBTS. 18, King's Avenue, Clapham Park.

MBS. SABAH TBIMMEB (11 S. i. 170).

'N. & Q.' for 26 February reached me at the same time as the proof of a forth- coming article of mine on Mrs. Trimmer. In that I say :

" The letter was written at Kew, where the writer had recently settled with her father [who had been appointed superintendent of works at the Palace]. There (in the words of the biography ) she ' became acquainted with Mr. Trimmer, and at the age of 21 she was united to him with the approbation of the friends on both sides.' We 'are told that he was ' a man of an agreeable person, pleasing manners, and exemplary virtues,' but we are not told who he was or whence he came.

From other sources I learn that his Christian name was James, and that he lived just across the river at Old Brentford ; I infer that he was in a good way of business as a manufacturer of bricks and tiles ; and I think it probable that supplying these for work at the Palace brought him into friendly relations with the superintendent (and the superintendent's daughter)."

If F. H. S. will communicate with me, I shall be pleased to send him all the references I have to Mr. Trimmer.

DAVID SALMON.

Swansea.

Some more or less reliable details about the family of Mrs. Sarah Trimmer are to be found in ' ' Court and Private Life in the Time of Queen Charlotte : being the Journals of Mrs. Papendiek ; Assistant Keeper of tha Wardrobe and reader to Her Majesty, edited by her Granddaughter Mrs. Vernon Delves Broughton," Richard Bentley & Son, 1887. See vol. i. p. 105 et seq. I have written ' ' more or less reliable " because I find Mrs. Papendiek, although well-meaning and gifted with a retentive memory, to be somewhat inaccurate here and there in names and dates. FBANK SCHLOESSEB.

Kew.

NELSON AMONG HIS INTIMATES (11 S. i. 124, 175). I am sorry to have fallen into an error about Dean Stanley. I was misled by two assertions that the Dean who edited the book was Dean Stanley. In a printed book- catalogue I saw this little work men- tioned as " 1065. Stanley (Mrs.), Journal, &c. Edited by [her son] the Dean of West- minster, &c. With the editor's unsigned inscription." And on the title-page of my copy some former owner has written above the editor's title, the name ' ' Stanley."

On these two statements I too hastily concluded, without verifying them, that Dean Stanley was the editor. On the fly- leaf is the autograph : ' ' Mrs. Ellicott from the Editor." D. J.

ELIZABETHAN HEBALDIC MANUSCBIPTS (11 S. i. 168). In alleging that " the question is settled for ever " that Shakespeare ob- tained his coat of arms by fraud your New York correspondent seems to have reached an isolated and rather untenable position. Apparently some misgivings have over- taken him. Others may keep them company if he makes himself more fully acquainted with Brooke's reputation, through Vin- cent's * Discoverie of Errours,* 1622, and other works. WILLIAM JAGGABD.

Liverpool.