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II. DIGEON concludes his letter of 6 Aug. by saying :

" I have been recalled by the mobilization, and shall leave for the front in a few days. I only hope that I shall come back and resume my work on Fielding as soon as possible ; but Fielding's Letters will be far from my mind for many days."

Silence on the part of M. DiCEON must therefore not be taken as accepting my views. J. PAUL DE CASTRO.

1, Essex Court, Temple.

EARLY RAILWAY TRAVELLING ( 1 1 S. x. 1 70). The following is a copy of the rules for travellers on the Manchester to Liverpool Railway. It contains all the information desired by your correspondent, except the length of time that this method was em- ployed :

A Copy of the Rides /or Travellers on the First Railway. RULES.

(1) Any person desiring to travel from Liver- pool to Manchester, or vice versa, or any portion of the journey thereof, must, twenty-four hours beforehand, make application to the station agent at the place of departure, giving his name, address, place of birth, age, occupation, and reason for desiring to travel.

(2) The station agent upon assuring himself that the applicant desires to travel for a just and lawful cause, shall thereupon issue a ticket to the applicant, who shall travel by the train named thereon.

' (3) Trains will start at their point of departure as near schedule times as possible, but the com- pany do not guarantee when they will reach their destination.

(4) Trains not reaching their destination before dark will put up at one of the several stopping- places along the route for the night, and passengers must pay, and provide for, their own lodging during the night.

(5) Luggage will be carried on the roof of the carriages. If such luggage gets wet, the company will not be responsible for any loss attaching thereto.

This document is still preserved among the Company's archives. High Street, Walsall. A ' S ' WHITFIELD.

According to ' Our Iron Roads,' by Fre- derick S. Williams (7th ed., London,' 1885), p. 307 :

" In the early days of railways, passengers on some lines were required to give and to spell their names to the [booking-] clerk, in order that they might be written on a large green paper ticket ; and, in other cases, metal tickets were usoil, on which was engraved the name of the station to \vhich the traveller was going [as, e.g., on the Leicester and Swannington Railway]."

An illustration of such a metal ticket is shown on the same page. The history of the invention of the modern railway ticket in 1810 by Thomas Edmonson, a railway clerk

at a little station on the Newcastle and Carlisle line, is given by the same author (p. 308). Edmonson was also the inventor of the ticket printing machine, originally made by Blaylock, a watchmaker, and of the dating press. The Manchester and Leeds Railway Company were the first to avail themselves of the new invention.

L. L. K.

' Bradshaw's Railway Companion ' for 1842 contains the following remarks about tickets :

" The check ticket given to the passenger on the payment of his fare will be required from him on leaving the coach or at the station next before his arrival at London or Birmingham, and if not then presented, he will be liable to have the Fare again demanded.

" A passenger having paid his fare and taken out a ticket may go by any of the trains of that day, but the ticket will not be available on the following clay, unless under special circum- stances, when it may be exchanged for a new pass for the day required."

J. J. H.

HENDERSON'S ' LIFE OF MAJOR ANDRE ' (11 S. x. 147). Is it possible that the name of the author is Hensel ? I found the follow- ing at the British Museum, bound up in a volume lettered ' Biographical Tracts, 1872- 1906,' from the collection of Henry Spencer Ashbee :

" Major John Andre [sic] as a Prisoner of War at Lancaster, Pa., 1775-6. With some Account of a Historic House and Family. A Sketch by W. U. Hensel. Read before Donegal Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Lan- caster, Pa., on April 13, 1904. Reprinted from The New Era, Lancaster, Pa."

I note that there is a facsimile signature under a frontispiece portrait, but that there is no accent over the final letter, nor is there in the pamphlet itself. WM. H. PEET. [L. L. K. also thanked for reply.]

DESCENDANTS OF CATHERINE PARR (11 S. x. 170). Referring to Mary, daughter of Thomas Seymour and Catherine Parr, 011 p. 195 of ' Annals of Winchcombe and Sudeley ' (1877), the late Mrs. Dent wrote :

" If she had been befriended by her uncle, the Marquis of Northampton, who then held an im- portant position at court, she might have retained some of her patrimony, but, on the contrary, he came in for great part of her possessions ; an Act of Parliament was passed to disinherit Mary Sey- mour, and Sudeley Castle was bestowed upon the Marquis. Though another Act was passed for the restitution in the same year, we do not hear of its being carried out, and it is not known with whom she finally found a home. Strype affirms that she died young ; Lodge that she only lived to be thirteen, but without giving any authority ;