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 12 s.vm. MAY 28, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 421 LONDON, MAY 28, 1921. CONTENTS. No. 163. NOTES : Correspondence of Harriet Martineau, 421 Trial of a .Duellist, Newfoundland, 422 Aldeburgh Chamberlains' Accounts, 426 Brass at Stoke d'Abernon : Enamelled Shield Pedestrianism in 1818, 428 Vicar elected by Ballot " Tenant in Capite " Old Man's Perversity, 429. QUERIES : Arms of the See of Brechin Identification of Arms Maginn and Byron " The Grey Mare is the Better Horse," 430 Baker Enoch Sterne " Chatauqua " -" Little Englander " Gibbon : Reference Wanted Palestine : Fort of St. George English Apples John Langham James Macburney Mouatt Bernard Andrews, Poet Laureate " The Poor Cat i' th' Adage " The "Diehards," 431 Defoe's Relations Dickens and Henry VIII. Vernon of Liverpool Sir Thomas Crook Bart. " Tether Book "Cigarette Smoking ' The New Jerusalem : a Hymn of the Olden Time ' Latin Proverb Grace America Gledhill Sir Francis Brewster, 432 ' The Fable of the Bees ' Martin (Marten) Author Wanted, 433. REPLIES : " Venetian Window "Epitaph in Lowestoft Churchyard, 433 The Monument : ' Ingoldsby Legends ' Napoleon as a Child Ghost Stories connected with Old London Bridge, 434 Old London : Cloth Fair Smallest Pig of a Litter Pastorini's Prophecies- Singing Bread " Nothing but their Eyes to weep with " Rights and Duties of Functionaries, 435 Lancashire Settlers in America Wine Names Blount of Lincoln- shire Foxhounds Early Stage-Coaches " Flying Scud " Cooke and his County Itineraries Coco-nut Cup, 436 Rice Liddell and Scott's Lexicon" Rex illiteratus est asinus coronatus " Van der Does, 437 Paul Lucas His ' Journey Through Asia Minor ' Sir Henry Colet The Year 1000 A.D., 438. NOTES ON BOOKS : Britain's Tribute to Dante in Literature and Art ' ' Memorias Antiguas Historiales del Peru.' Notices to Correspondents. CORRESPONDENCE OF HARRIET MARTINEAU. THE following letters, two from Harriet Martineau and one from Susan Martineau, announcing her aunt's death, throw some little additional light on the home life and on the opinions of a highly -gifted woman. They seem wfell worth being made known to readers of ' N. & Q.,' for the use of any writer who may, in future, think of making a new study of Harriet Martineau's life and works. These letters were given to me by a friend, whom I believe to have been a connexion of Mrs. Jones, some fifteen years ago. [COPY.] I. Ambleside, Sepr. 5/66. Dear Mrs. Jones Your hamper is a real treat ! You have sent us just what is not to be got here, mushrooms and fruit particularly. We had never thought of mushrooms, which I am ivmark;il>ly fond of; and there is no such fruit here as your peaches and pears, the season having been unfavourable for autumn fruit. Caroline " does not care for fruit," she says, but the sausages are quite in her way and in mine too ; and I have just had one for breakfast ; and excellent it is. We had some fun about them last evening. The hamper was unpacked in the drawing-room for my amusement, and Caroline put on one side the things that were for her. Half an hour after- wards she came in with the box she had put aside, and said " I took this for note paper," and taking off the lid, there vere the sausages ! How e did laugh! I hope her cousin will think her looking ell. My friends here observe to me how well she 'looks. It is such a pity that your son comes just this week the only one in all the year when I have no niece with me, and when therefore Caroline canr ot go long walks with her cousin. I am quite con- cerned at it. And when my niece from Liverpool comes at the end of the week, her brother conies ith her, so that the little room will not be at liberty after Thursday night. Till Friday your son is most welcome to it ; and afterwards, till he goes home, I hope he will come here as much as he likes. I have desired Caroline to make him comfortable in every way she can. I do hope the weather will mend ; but the glass is low. Now that I am writing, I will say a confidential word about C. which is for her uncle and yourself alone. She once told me that you were " so afraid she shd be tempted to go to America." I assure you I was at one time very uneasy about it ; and even now, I shd be very glad to hear that her brother-in-law was married again. Unless he waits for my death I shd think he will marry again ; and not the less, but the more, for the true and deep love he certainly had for his wife. It is not for selfish reasons only, nor chiefly that I have dreaded C.'s going. He wd have wanted her to rnarry him, of course ; and I want her to understand that she cannot be legally his Wife. In this country, because she is his deceased wife's sister ; and in America because he wd there marry under a false name. In fact, all she really knows of him, beyond his attach- ment to his wife, is that he is living under a false name, after a secret flitting from this country. There cannot but be something wrong in such a case. However, I have seen -no signs whatever I of her being tempted ; and I don't think he writes often to her now. I am sure she could not like life at Chicago, if all else Were right, nor wd she have her health there. I hardly need say I have remembered her in my Will ; nor that my family will have her interests at heart when I am gone. I am sure they will, both for my sake and her own. Meantime, I really believe she is happy here ; and I am sure she is very good. She sends her love to her Uncle and you. I beg you to accept my hearty thanks for the kindness you have shown me, and to believe me very truly yours (Sgd.) H. MARTINEAU. p.g. NO doubt C. has told you how comfort- ably we are settled with the good young girl who is our cook. She is a wonderful girl for