CHARLES DARWIN AND SAMUEL BUTLER
1911. Charles Darwin and Samuel Butler. A Step towards Reconciliation. By H. F. Jones.
SAMUEL BUTLER: A MEMOIR
BY HENRY FESTING JONES
1902-1914. First Manuscript. Second Manuscript. Third Manuscript.
1915-16. Proofs.
1916. Revises.
1917. Advance copy, without illustrations.
1918-1919. Manuscript, proofs, and revises of additional matter for First Impression.
1920. Manuscript, proofs, and revises of additional matter for Second Impression.
1920. Second Impression.
III. BOOKS ABOUT BUTLER:
AND BOOKS, MAGAZINES, &c., CONTAINING CHAPTERS OR ARTICLES ABOUT BUTLER OR PROMINENT ALLUSIONS TO HIM
Accademia Dafnica di Scienze, Lettere, e delle Arti in AciReale: Atti e Rendiconti. Vol. ix. Anno 1902.
Accademia di Scienze, Lettere, ed Arti de’ Zelanti di AciReale: Rendiconti e Memorie. 1906. Pp. 22, 27, 44, 50 refer to Butler.
Acklom, Moreby. The Constructive Quarterly, March 1917, containing “Samuel Butler the Third,” by Moreby Acklom.
Barry, Canon William. The Dublin Review, Oct. 1914, with article “Samuel Butler of Erewhon.”
Blum, Jean. Mercure de France, 16 Juillet 1910, with article on Samuel Butler by Jean Blum.
Bodleian Quarterly Record. Vol. II., nos. 16, 17. 1918.
Includes a note on Butler’s use of Frost’s “Lives of Eminent Christians” (see “Quis desiderio . . . ?” in his Essays); and on Dr. John Frost.
Book Monthly for February 1913, with notice of the Note-Books of Samuel Butler, reproducing the portrait.
Booth, Robert B. Five Years in New Zealand (1859 to 1864). By Robert B. Booth, M.Inst.C.E. Printed for private circulation. 1912.
Referred to in my Memoir of Butler. With three letters from Mr. Booth and three other documents. Mr. Booth was with Butler on his run at Mesopotamia, N.Z.
Bridges, Horace J. Samuel Butler’s Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited. By Horace J. Bridges. 1917.
Burdett, Osbert. Songs of Exuberance, together with The Trenches. By Osbert Burdett. Op. I. London, A. C. Fifield, 1915.
This contains, among Sonnets on People and Places, (I.) Samuel Butler; (II.) Samuel Butler.
Cambridge Readings in English Literature. Ed. by George Sampson. Book III. Cambridge, 1918.
Pp. 5-15 are occupied with an extract from Erewhon.
Cannan, Gilbert. Samuel Butler: a Critical Study. By Gilbert Cannan. London, Martin Seeker, 1915.
Clutton-Brock, A. Essays on Books. London, 1920.
Containing reprints of articles on the Note-Books and the Memoir.
Constructive Quarterly, The. See Acklom, M.
Contemporary Review, The, June 1913, containing review of the Note-Books of S. Butler.
Darbishire, A. D. An Introduction to a Biology. By A. D. Darbishire. London, Cassell, 1917.
With autograph letter to H. F. Jones from the author’s sister, Helen Darbishire.
Darwin, Sir Francis. Rustic Sounds. By Sir Francis Darwin. London, John Murray, 1917.
Reproducing “The Movements of Plants,” a lecture delivered by him at the Glasgow Meeting of the British Association, Sept. 16, 1901. This lecture is referred to in the Memoir of Butler; it quotes a passage from Butler’s translation of Hering in Unconscious Memory.
De La Mare, Walter. The Edinburgh Review, Jan. 1913, containing a notice of the Note-Books of Samuel Butler in “Current Literature.” By Walter De La Mare.
Dublin Review, The. See Barry, Canon.
Duffin, H. C. The Quintessence of Bernard Shaw. With “Prologue: Of Samuel Butler.” London, Allen and Unwin, 1920.
Edinburgh Review, The. See De La Mare, Walter.
Firth, J. B. Highways and Byways in Nottinghamshire. By J. B. Firth. With Illustrations by Frederick L. Griggs. London, 1916.
See pp. 93-6 for Langar.
Hardwick, J. C. The Modern Churchman, March 1920, containing “A Modern Ishmael,” by J. C. Hardwick.
Harris, John F. Samuel Butler, author of “Erewhon: the Man and his Work.” By John F. Harris. London, Grant Richards, 1916.
Inscribed “H. Festing Jones, with best wishes and very many thanks from John F. Harris, July 5, 1916,” with a few newspaper notices, loose.
Hartog, Marcus. Problems of Life and Reproduction. By Marcus Hartog. London, Murray, 1913.
With letter from the author to H. F. Jones.
Hartog, Marcus. The Fundamental Principles of Biology. By Marcus Hartog. Reprinted from “Natural Science,” vol. XI., nos. 68 and 69, Oct. and Nov. 1897.
Hartog, Marcus. Samuel Butler and recent Mnemic Biological Theories. Extract from “Scientia,” Jan. 1914.
Hewlett, M. In a Green Shade. London, 1920.
Containing an article on the Memoir.
Independent Review, The. See MacCarthy, Desmond.
Jackson, Holbrook. Samuel Butler. “T.P.’s Weekly,” July 1915. “To-Day,” Dec. 1918 and Jan. 1919.
Jones, Henry Festing. Samuel Butler as Musical Critic. “The Chesterian.” N.S. No. 7. London, May 1920.
Larbaud, V. Samuel Butler. In “La Nouvelle Revue Française,” Jan. 1920. Also specimens of his translation of Erewhon, etc., in other numbers of the same periodical, and notices of it.
Larbaud, V. L’Enfance et la Jeunesse de Samuel Butler. In “Les Écrits Nouveaux,” April 1920.
MacCarthy, Desmond. The Independent Review, Sept. 1904, with article “The Author of Erewhon,” by Desmond MacCarthy.
MacCarthy, Desmond. The Quarterly Review, Jan. 1914, containing “The Author of Erewhon,” by Desmond MacCarthy.
MacCarthy, Desmond. Remnants. By Desmond MacCarthy. London, 1918.
Being essays and articles reprinted from various periodicals and including “Samuel Butler: an Impression.”
Mais, S. P. B. From Shakespeare to O. Henry. By S. P. B. Mais. London, G. Richards, 1917.
Containing a chapter on Butler.
Mercure de France. See Blum, Jean.
Mind. See Rattray, Robert.
Monthly Review, The. See Streatfeild, R. A.
National Gallery of British Art. Catalogue of the National Gallery of British Art, 19th ed., 1911.
See pp. 37-8 for Butler’s picture, “Mr. Heatherley’s Holiday.”
Negri, Francesco. Il Santuario di Crea in Monferrato. By Francesco Negri (i.e. Butler’s friend the Avvocato Negri of Casale-Monferrato). Alessandria, 1902.
Two of the illustrations are as in Ex Voto, Butler having lent his photographs to the Avvocato.
Nuova Antologia, 16 Luglio 1902, with necrology of S. Butler under “Tra Libri e Riviste.”
Pestalozzi, G. Samuel Butler der Jüngere, 1835-1902. Inaugural-Dissertation. Zürich, 1914.
Quarterly Review, The. See MacCarthy, Desmond.
Quilter, Harry. What’s What. By Harry Quilter. 1902.
With MS. Note by H. F. Jones. Pp. 308-311 are about Butler, who possessed a copy of the book, given him, I suppose, by Quilter; but he passed it on to Alfred.
Rattray, Robert F. Extract from “Mind,” July 1914, containing “The Philosophy of Samuel Butler.” By Robert F. Rattray.
Salter, W. H. Essays on two Moderns: Euripides and Samuel Butler. By W. H. Salter. London, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1911.
Sampson, George. The Bookman, Aug. 1915, containing illustrated article by George Sampson.
Sella, Attilio. Un’ Inglese Fervido Amico dell’ Italia, Samuel Butler. By Attilio Sella. 1916.
Given to H. F. Jones by the author.
Sinclair, May. A Defence of Idealism. By May Sinclair. London, Macmillan, 1917.
Containing “The Pan-Psychism of Samuel Butler.”
Streatfeild, R. A. The Monthly Review, Sept. 1902, with article, “Samuel Butler.” By R. A. Streatfeild.
Wall, Arnold. A Century of New Zealand Praise. By Arnold Wall. Christchurch, 1912.
Sonnet XC. is about Butler.
Williams, Orlo. The Essay. By Orlo Williams. London Secker [1915].
Yeats, John Butler. Essays, Irish and American. By John Butler Yeats. With an appreciation by A. E. Dublin, 1918.
The first essay is “Recollections of Samuel Butler.”
Zangwill, Israel. Italian Fantasies. By Israel Zangwill. London, Heinemann, 1910.
Contains “Sicily and the Albergo Samuele Butler.”
IV. BOOKS, ETC., RELATING TO BUTLER AND HIS SUBJECTS
Adams, C. Warren. A Spring in the Canterbury Settlement. By C. Warren Adams. London, 1853.
Barker, Lady. Station Life in New Zealand. By Lady Barker. London, 1870.
With MS. note by H. F. Jones, referred to in the Memoir of Butler. F. Napier Broome and his wife, then Lady Barker, had a run near Butler’s in New Zealand.
Basler Jahrbuch. See Faesch, Hans Rudolf.
Bateson, Wm. Biological Fact and the Structure of Society: The Herbert Spencer Lecture (p. 19). Oxford, 1912.
Bateson, Wm. Problems of Genetics (Silliman Lectures). By Wm. Bateson, F.R.S. New Haven, 1913.
Butler, James. Copies of Letters by Ensign James Butler (an uncle of Dr. Butler) sent from Deal, Funchal, and Calcutta, 1764-1765; with Introduction by H. F. Jones, all in typewriting and MS.
James Butler and these letters are referred to in the Life of Dr. Butler, and also in the Memoir of Butler. Butler gave to the British Museum an incomplete copy of the Letters and kept another incomplete copy which I gave to the British Museum. Each of the incomplete copies contained matter not in the other. I had this volume (now at St John’s) made up from the two incomplete copies.
Butler, Henry Thomas, and another. Auction Bridge in a Nutshell. By Butler and Brevitas—the Butler being Henry Thomas Butler, nephew of Samuel Butler. [1913].
Butler, Mary. A Kalendar for Lads. 1910. Compiled by Butler’s sister, Mary Butler, and dedicated to her great-nephew, Patrick Henry Cecil Butler (son of her nephew, Henry Thomas Butler).
Referred to in the Memoir of S. Butler. Given to me by Miss Butler.
Butler, Samuel, D.D. A Sketch of Modern and Ancient Geography for the Use of Schools. By Samuel Butler, D.D. A new edition revised by the Rev. Thomas Butler, M.A., F.R.G.S. London, 1872.
Referred to in Butler’s Life of Dr. Butler and also in the Memoir of Butler.
Butler, Rev. Thomas. See Butler, Samuel, D.D.
Clarke, Charles. The Beauclercs, Father and Son. By Charles Clarke. 3 vols. London, 1867.
Referred to in Butler’s Life of Dr. Butler, also in the Memoir of Butler, who saw the book in the British Museum. I bought this copy second-hand on an open-air bookstall in Paris.
Drew, Mary. Catherine Gladstone. By her Daughter, Mary Drew. London, 1919.
With letter from the Authoress to H. F. Jones, 20 Jan. 1920.
Dudgeon, Robert Ellis. Colymbia. London, Trübner, 1873.
No author’s name is given, but the author was Dr. Robert Ellis Dudgeon, the well-known homoeopathic doctor and friend of Butler. Referred to in the Memoir of Butler.
Faesch, Hans Rudolf. The Easier Jahrbuch, 1906.
Containing Letters from the East by Hans Rudolf Faesch, who is referred to in The Note-Books of Samuel Butter and also in the Memoir.
Fighting Man in Fiction, The. Woodville, N.Z. (1917?)
A New Zealand pamphlet with letter from and photo of E. C. Chudleigh, who sent it to me and who knew Butler in New Zealand.
Francatelli, C. E. The Cook’s Guide. By Charles Elmé Francatelli. London, 1865.
“I believe you could read Francatelli right through from beginning to end without being moved in the smallest degree.” Miss Savage to Butler (1877). Memoir I. 246.
Galloni, Pietro. Sacro Monte di Varallo. Atti di Fondazione. By Pietro Galloni. Varallo, 1909.
With two post cards from Galloni to H. F. Jones.
Galloni, Pietro. Sacro Monte di Varallo. Origine e Svolgimento. By Pietro Galloni. Varallo, 1914.
With two letters from Galloni and one from R. A. Streatfeild to H. F. Jones.
Grosvenor, The Hon. Mrs. Richard Cecil. Physical Exercises for Women and Girls. By the Hon. Mrs. Richard Cecil Grosvenor. Additional exercises, loose, accompanying. 1903.
She was formerly Mrs. Alfred Bovill, daughter of Charles Clarke, the author of The Beauclercs, Father and Son (see above). She is mentioned in Butler’s Life of Dr. Butler and in the Memoir of Butler.
Helps, Arthur. See Victoria, Queen.
Hering, Ewald. Memory. Lecture on the Specific Energies of the Nervous System, by Professor Ewald Hering, University of Leipzig. English translation. The Open Court Publishing Co., Chicago and London, 1913.
Inscribed “H. Festing Jones, with best wishes from John F. Harris, August 31, 1915.” Cf. Butler’s translation of the Lecture on Memory in Unconscious Memory.
Hutton, Frederick Wollaston. The Lesson of Evolution. By Frederick Wollaston Hutton, F.R.S. 2nd ed. 1907.
King, Rev. S. W. The Italian Valleys of the Pennine Alps. By the Rev. S. W. King. London, 1858.
Referred to in Ex Voto. Near the beginning of this book Mr. King speaks of Varallo-Sesia.
Larken, Edmund Paul. The Pall Mall Magazine, May 1897, with “The Priest’s Bargain,” a story by E. P. Larken.
Butler gave Larken the plot for this story. See The Note-Books of Samuel Butler, pp. 235-6.
Le Dantec, Felix. Lamarckiens et Darwiniens. Par Félix Le Dantec. 3e éd. Paris, 1908.
Lytton, Edward, Lord. The Coming Race. London, 1886.
Referred to in the Memoir of Butler.
Notes and Queries, 2 April 1892. Containing article, “Took’s Court and its neighbourhood,” with plans and illustrations, including Clifford’s Inn, Barnard’s Inn, and Staple Inn.
Pall Mall Magazine, The. See Larken, E. P.
Six “Red Rose” Pamphlets. 1913-1916.
Reinheimer, Hermann. Symbiogenesis, the Universal Law of Progressive Evolution. By Hermann Reinheimer. London, 1915.
See, especially, chap. vii.—Psychogenesis.
Russell, E. S. Form and Function. London, 1916.
Ch. xix—“Samuel Butler and the Memory Theories of Heredity.”
Salt, H. S. Animal Rights. London, 1894.
With MS. note by H. F. Jones.
Sladen, Douglas. Selinunte and the West of Sicily. By Douglas Sladen. London, 1903.
Smythe, William Henry. Memoir descriptive of the Resources, Inhabitants, and Hydrography of Sicily and its Islands. By Captain William Henry Smythe, R.N., K.S.F. London, Murray, 1824.
Smythe, William Henry. The Mediterranean. By Rear-Admiral Wm. Henry Smythe, K.S.F., D.C.L. London, Parker, 1854.
These two books by Admiral Smythe were wanted for The Authoress of the Odyssey. Butler saw them in the British Museum; I bought these copies.
Tripp, Ellen S. My Early Days. By Ellen Shephard Tripp. Timaru, N.Z., Joyce, 1915.
With letter to H. F. Jones from Leonard O. H. Tripp, of New Zealand.
Victoria, H.M. Queen. Leaves from the Journal of our Life in the Highlands. Edited by Arthur Helps. London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1868.
Victoria, H.M. Queen. More Leaves from the Journal of a Life in the Highlands. London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1884.
“Visit to Inveraray . . . and after lunch we went into the large drawing-room next door to where we had lunched in 1847, when Lorne was only two years old. And now I return, alas! without my beloved husband, to find Lorne my son-in-law!” This passage, which occurs on page 291, is referred to, with a comment, by Miss Savage in a letter to Butler, 18th Nov. 1884. (Memoir I. 429.)
Ward, James. Heredity and Memory. By James Ward. Cambridge, 1913.
V. BOOKS FORMERLY THE PROPERTY OF SAMUEL BUTLER
Butler wrote to Robert Bridges, 6 Feb. 1900, “I have, I verily believe, the smallest library of any man in London who is by way of being literary.” (Memoir, II., 320.)
Cf. no. 9 in Section I. Pictures, “Interior of Butler’s sitting-room,” where part of his library is shown. The rest of his books were in a cupboard between his sitting-room and his painting-room. They all passed under the residuary bequest in his will to his nephew, Henry Thomas Butler, who gave them to me. Some were taken by Streatfeild, his literary executor, and some few were lost in transitu; the remainder are here.
Agar, T. L. Emendationes Homericae. [189-]
With notes by Butler.
Allen, Grant. Charles Darwin. By Grant Allen. (English Worthies.) London, 1885.
Butler was asked to review this, but declined on the ground that there was too strong a personal hostility between both Darwin and Grant Allen and himself to make it possible for him to review the book without a bias against it. (Memoir, II. 28.)
Anderson, W. C. F. See Engelman, R.
Bettany, G. T. The Life of Charles Darwin. (Great Writers.) London, 1887.
Bible, The Holy. Oxford, 1836.
Inscribed “Samuel Butler, from his affectionate Godmother and Aunt Anna Worsley, September 13th, 1836.” So that he was not christened till he was more than nine months old, and he used to say that this delay was a risky business, because during all those months the devil had the run of him. He imitated the inscription in this Bible for the inscription in the christening Bible which Ernest spurns from him when he is about to undertake the conversion of Miss Maitland in chapter lx. of The Way of All Flesh. But he imitated it too closely for he wrote, “It was the Bible given him at his christening by his affectionate Godmother and Aunt, Elizabeth Allaby.” Whereas Ernest only had one godmother, and she was Alethea, the sister of Theobald. Anna Worsley was a sister of Butler’s mother, and Elizabeth Allaby was a sister of Ernest’s mother.
Bible. New Testament in Greek. Oxford, 1851.
Two copies, with very numerous MS. notes by Butler. Given to St. John’s College some years ago.
Bordiga, Gaudenzio. Notizie intorno alle opere di Gaudenzio Ferrari. Milano, 1821.
Used by Butler in writing Ex Voto.
Boswell, James. Croker’s Boswell’s Johnson. New edition. London, 1860.
Pencil marks by Butler.
Bridges, Robert. Poetical Works of Robert Bridges. 2 vols. London, 1898.
Butler and Bridges corresponded about the Sonnets of Shakespeare and the Odyssey and exchanged examples of their published works. (See the Memoir.)
Buckley, Theodore Alois. The Iliad of Homer and the Odyssey of Homer. Translated by Theodore Alois Buckley. (Bonn’s Classical Library.) 2 vols. 1872-3.
Burke, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France. By Edmund Burke. London, Daly [18--].
Candler, C. The Prevention of Consumption. By C. Candler. London, 1887.
Inscribed “Samuel Butler, Esq., with the Author’s compliments.”
Carlyle, Thomas. Oliver Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches. By Thomas Carlyle. 3 vols. London, 1857.
Colborne-Veel, Mary. The Fairest of the Angels and Other Verse. By Mary Colborne-Veel. London, 1894.
Given to Butler by the Authoress, who is the daughter of J. Colborne-Veel, formerly editor of The Press, Christchurch, New Zealand. Miss Colborne-Veel found Butler’s “Philosophic Dialogue” in The Press of 20 Dec. 1862. (See the Memoir, I. 100.)
Creighton, Charles. Illustrations of Unconscious Memory in Disease. By Charles Creighton. London, 1886.
Inscribed “To Samuel Butler from the author, February, 1888.”
Cruveilhier, J. C. Atlas of the Descriptive Anatomy of the Human Body. By J. C. Cruveilhier. London, 1844.
Dallas, W. S. See Darwin, Charles.
Daniel, P. A. Notes and Conjectural Emendations of certain Doubtful Passages in Shakespeare’s Plays. By P. A. Daniel. London, 1870.
Inscribed “S. Butler from his friend the Author.”
Darwin, Charles. The Origin of Species. By Charles Darwin. First Edition. London, 1859.
“From the Author.” With MS. notes and marks by Samuel Butler.
Darwin, Charles. The Origin of Species. By Charles Darwin Sixth Edition (18th thousand), with additions and corrections to 1872. London, 1876.
With MS. notes and marks by Samuel Butler. Butler bought this in order to compare it with the original edition.
Darwin, Charles. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. By Charles Darwin. London, 1872.
Inscribed “From the Author.” Butler procured for Mr. Darwin the two illustrations by Mr. A. May, pp. 54-5. (See the Memoir.)
Darwin, Charles. The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication. By Charles Darwin. Second edition. 2 vols. London, 1875.
Darwin, Charles. Erasmus Darwin. By Ernst Krause. Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas, with a preliminary notice by Charles Darwin. First edition. London, 1879.
This book is referred to in chapter iv. of Unconscious Memory; also in my pamphlet, “Charles Darwin and Samuel Butler: a Step towards Reconciliation”; also in the Memoir.
Darwin, Charles. The Life of Erasmus Darwin. By Charles Darwin. Being an introduction to an Essay on his Scientific Works by Ernst Krause, translated from the German by W. S. Dallas. Second edition. London, 1887.
Pencil note by Butler, p. 4. “Second Edition” means second edition of the preceding book which is called “Erasmus Darwin,” that is, the title was altered. In the first book precedence is given to Krause’s Life of Erasmus Darwin, in the second precedence is given to Charles Darwin’s introduction.
Davies, John Llewelyn. See Plato.
Dictys Cretensis. (Teubner Classics.) Leipzig.
Dudgeon, Robert Ellis. The Prolongation of Life. By R. E. Dudgeon, M.D. Second edition. London, 1900.
Given by Dr. Dudgeon either to Butler or to me after Butler’s death, I forget which.
Duncan, W. Stewart. Conscious Matter. By W. Stewart Duncan. London, 1881.
Elements, The, of Social Science; or, Physical, Sexual, and Natural Religion. By a Graduate of Medicine. Third edition. London, 1860.
I have no doubt that Butler was directed to this book by Dr. Dudgeon.
Emslie, John Philipps. New Canterbury Tales. By John Philipps Emslie. London [1887].
Engelman and Anderson. Pictorial Atlas to Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. London, 1892. Thirty-six Plates by R. Engelman and W. C. F. Anderson.
Epicorum Graecorum Fragmenta. (Teubner Classics.) Leipzig.
Garnett, Richard. Poems. By Richard Garnett. London, 1895.
Inscribed “Samuel Butler, with R. Garnett’s very kind regards. December, 1893.”
Garnett, Richard. Edward Gibbon Wakefield. By R. Garnett, C.B., LL.D. London, 1898.
Inscribed “From the Author.”
Garnett, Richard. The Life of Thomas Carlyle. By Richard Garnett. London, 1887.
Inscribed “Samuel Butler from Richard Garnett.”
Garnett, Richard. Dante, Petrarch, Camoens. cxxiv. Sonnets translated by Richard Garnett, LL.D. London, 1896.
Inscribed “Samuel Butler, from R. Garnett.”
Goethe. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship. Translated. 2 vols. Leipzig, 1873.
Hesiod. (Teubner Classics.) Leipzig.
Homer. Iliad and Odyssey. 2 vols. London, Pickering, 1831.
With numerous MS. notes by Butler. Given to St. John’s College some years ago.
Homer. Iliad and Odyssey. 4 vols. [18--]
Interleaved and profusely adnotated by Butler.
Homer. Iliad, Odyssey, and Hymns. (Teubner Classics.) Leipzig.
Homer. See Buckley, Theodore Alois.
Jebb, Sir R. C. Introduction to Homer. Third edition. London, 1888. Also a copy with a few MS. notes by Butler.
Jesus of History, The. London, 1869.
Used by Butler in preparing The Fair Haven.
Krause, Ernst. See Darwin, Charles.
Lamarck. Philosophie Zoologique. Nouvelle édition par Ch. Martins. 2 vols. Paris, 1873.
Used by Butler in preparing Evolution Old and New.
Laurentius. The Miocene Men of the Bible. By Laurentius. London, 1889.
Locke, John. An Essay concerning Human Understanding. By John Locke. 2 vols. London, 1824.
Malone, E. See Shakespeare.
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix. Letters from Italy and Switzerland. By Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. Translated by Lady Wallace. London, 1862.
See p. 37 about Mendelssohn’s staying such a long while before things in Alps and Sanctuaries, ch. ii.
Milton, John. The Prose Works of John Milton. Only Vol. III., containing “The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce.” (Bohn.) London, 1872.
Referred to in The Way of All Flesh, when Theobald and Christina drive away together after their marriage. And cf. Life and Habit, ch. ii., where, after quoting from a journal an extract about Lycurgus, Butler proceeds: “Yet this truly comic paper does not probably know that it is comic, any more than the kleptomaniac knows that he steals, or than John Milton knew that he was a humorist when he wrote a hymn upon the Circumcision and spent his honeymoon in composing a treatise on Divorce.”
Mivart, St. George. On the Genesis of Species. By St. George Mivart. Second edition. London, 1871.
Used by Butler in preparing his books on evolution.
Paley, William. Natural Theology or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity. By William Paley, D.D. New edition. London, 1837.
Paley, William. A View of the Evidences of Christianity. By William Paley, D.D. New edition by T. R. Birks. London [18--].
Piers Ploughman. The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman. Edited by Thomas Wright. 2 vols. London, 1887.
Butler bought this to help him to make up his mind as to the limits of permissible archaism in translating the Odyssey and the Iliad.
Pilkington, Matthew. A General Dictionary of Painters. By Matthew Pilkington. 2 vols. London, 1829.
Plato. The Republic of Plato. Translated by John Llewelyn Davies and David James Vaughan. Cambridge, 1852.
H. F. Jones to Butler from the Hotel dell’Angelo, Faido, in 1883: “The signora has given me No. 4, the room into which you came one morning, more than five years ago, and said, ‘Oh, you’ve been reading that damned Republic again!’” Memoir, I. 395.
Rigaud, John Francis. See Vinci, Leonardo da.
Rockstro, W. S. The Rules of Counterpoint. By W. S. Rockstro. London [1882].
Out of which Butler used to do his counterpoint exercises.
Rossetti, William Michael. See Webster, Augusta.
Schoelcher, Victor. The Life of Handel. By Victor Schoelcher. London, 1857.
Referred to in the Memoir of Butler.
Shakespeare, William. The Poems of William Shakespeare. London, Daly [18--].
Shakespeare, William. Shakespeare’s Poems. Malone. 1780.
This is part of Vol. I. of Malone’s “Supplement to the Edition of Shakespeare’s Plays published in 1778 by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens.” I do not know where Butler got it; he wanted Malone’s comments on the Sonnets and he may have bought this second-hand or it may have been given to him. It was probably in a bad state, for he had it bound; there is an entry to that effect in his account book, 30th March, 1899.
Skertchly, Sydney B. J. See Tylor, Alfred.
Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn. The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, D.D. By Arthur Penrhyn Stanley. Seventh edition. London, 1852.
Butler bought this when he was writing the Life of his Grandfather, because he was told that it was a model biography of a great schoolmaster.
Strauss, Friedrich. A New Life of Jesus. By Friedrich Strauss. Authorised translation. 2 vols. London, 1865.
Used by Butler in preparing The Fair Haven.
Swift, Jonathan. The Works of Jonathan Swift. 2 vols. London, 1859.
With pencil marks by Butler.
Tylor, Alfred. Colouration in Plants and Animals. By Alfred Tylor. Edited by Sydney B. J. Skertchly. London, 1886.
Alfred Tylor was a friend of Butler, and is referred to in my Memoir.
Tylor, Alfred. On the Growth of Trees and Protoplasmic Continuity. By Alfred Tylor. London, 1886.
This was originally a lecture read by Skertchly to the Linnean Society, Mr. Tylor being too ill to attend. Butler was present and spoke. Referred to in the Memoir.
Vaughan, David James. See Plato.
Vinci, Leonardo da. A Treatise on Painting. By Leonardo da Vinci. Translated by John Francis Rigaud. London, 1835.
Webster, Augusta. Mother and Daughter. By the late Augusta Webster. London, 1895.
With an Introductory Note by Wm. Michael Rossetti. Inscribed, “Samuel Butler, with kind regards from Thomas Webster.” Augusta Webster is referred to in the Memoir.
White, William. The Story of a Great Delusion. By William White. London, 1885.
Wilberforce, Samuel. Agathos and other Sunday Stories. By Samuel Wilberforce, M.A., Archdeacon of Surrey. Nineteenth edition. London, 1857.
Wright, Thomas. See Piers Ploughman.
VI. ATLASES AND MAPS
FORMERLY THE PROPERTY OF SAMUEL BUTLER
Some of the maps are marked with red lines showing, in the words of another illustrious Johnian, “fields invested with purpureal gleams.” These red lines, specially noticeable in Butler’s ordnance maps of the neighbourhood within thirty miles round London, denote his country walks, and are referred to in his Introduction to Alps and Sanctuaries.
Butler, Samuel, D.D. An Atlas of Modern Geography for the use of Young Persons and Junior Classes in Schools. Selected from Dr. Butler’s “Modern Atlas,” by the Author’s son, the Rev. T. Butler, Rector of Langar. London, 1870. Also an edition inscribed, “Samuel Butler, October 20th, 1850”; and an edition of Dr. Butler’s “Atlas of Antient Geography.”
Environs of London, North side (eastern half missing).
Environs of London, South side—Sevenoaks, Tonbridge, Maidstone.
There is something wrong; one piece is much dirtier than the other; the two do not belong to one another. The dirty one is inscribed, almost illegibly, thus: “S. Butler, 15, Clifford’s Inn, Fleet Street, London, E.G. Please return to the above address. The finder, if poor, will be rewarded; if rich, thanked.” May be he did lose one half, and it was not returned, and he bought another.
Environs of London (Surrey).
Environs of London (Sussex).
Brighton and Environs (reduced Ordnance).
Chatham (near) to Romney Marsh (in two parts).
France (part of) and Channel Islands.
Boulogne }
Dieppe }
Dieppe } Mounted, and all in one envelope.
Canton Uri }
Tuscany }
Provincia di Torino.
The Val Leventina, 1681.
Trapani, Monte S. Giuliano and neighbourhood, in two sheets.
Trapani (Ordnance).
Ithaca and Corfu (three sheets).
An envelope containing maps and plans relating to Butler’s Run, Mesopotamia, New Zealand.
VII. MUSIC
FORMERLY THE PROPERTY OF SAMUEL BUTLER
These volumes contain many pencil notes, exclamations, and marks by Butler. xxx means very great admiration; xx moderate admiration; x slight admiration.
Handel’s Oratorios in Novello’s octavo edition:—
Acis and Galatea.
Alceste.
Alexander Balus.
Athaliah.
Belshazzar.
Chandos Te Deum and St. Cecilia’s Day.
Deborah.
Dettingen Te Deum.
Israel in Egypt.
Jephtha.
Joshua.
Miscellaneous.
Occasional Oratorio.
The Passion.
Samson.
Selections.
Semele.
Solomon.
Susanna.
Theodora.
Time and Truth.
Handel’s 16 Suites, Trois Leçons, Chaconne, Sept Pièces, Six Grandes Fugues (p. 118. Note in Butler’s writing at no. 6, “This is the ‘Old Man’ Fugue”; cf. the Memoir of Butler), and Six Petites Fugues.
Twelve Grand Concertos. By G. F. Handel. Pencil marks by Butler, e.g. p. 27, “xxx the whole of this concerto”; and by Butler and Jones, e.g. p. 88, “cf. Sarabande Suite, xvi. (Set 2, no. 8)” (so far by Jones and the rest is by Butler), “cf. ‘When Myra Sings,’ Clarke’s ‘Beauties of Purcell,’ pp. 124-5.”
A volume containing Concertos by Handel and Hasse and Six Overtures by Handel. Two papers pasted in; one printed with verses, the other MS. with “Upbraid me not, capricious fair.” This was set to music by H. F. Jones, and at that time we were told, through Notes and Queries, that the words were by Alexander Brome.
A volume inscribed “15, Clifford’s Inn, Fleet Street, E.G.” containing Arrangements of Handel, by Wm. Hutchins Callcott; Handel’s Hautboy Concertos, Nos. 2, 4 and 5; Eight of his Suites; his Concertante; his Six Organ Concertos; a Fantasia; his Water Music, and Two Minuets by Geminiani.
A volume containing Handel’s Coronation Anthem; Acis and Galatea; an Oratorio with no title or composer’s name, the first song being “Tune your Harps to Chearful Strain”; the Overture, Songs, Duets and Trio in “Comus” by Dr. Arne; and The Blackbirds, a Cantata by M. Isaac.
A volume with “Miss E. Parkes” on a label outside; inscribed, “Samuel Butler, with the love of his Aunt, Ellen Worsley, January 2nd, 1865”; containing Corelli’s Sonatas and Concertos, “Thorough-Bass,” by M. P. King, and a few of Handel’s Overtures. Pencil marks by Butler.
A volume containing L’Indispensable (a Manual for performers on the Pianoforte); Melodies of all Nations, English Airs, and various pieces by Handel, Bach and others.
Two Portfolios containing unbound music by Handel and others, including the Six Fugues, of which no. 6 in C Minor is the “Old Man” Fugue.
The Handel Album for the Pianoforte. Arranged by William Hutchins Callcott.
Handel’s Concertos and Roseingrave’s Suites. Walsh’s edition. Inscribed, “To S. Butler, with kind regards from Julian Marshall, June 20, 1873.”
The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book. Ed. by Fuller Maitland and Barclay Squire. Butler subscribed for this at the instigation of Fuller Maitland. He had the parts bound and gave the volumes to me.
The Beauties of Purcell (John Clarke), inscribed “S. Butler.”
The Well-Tempered Clavichord. By John Sebastian Bach. (Czerny).
371 Vierstimmige Choralgesänge von Johann Sebastian Bach.
Lieder Ohne Worte. 6 books, by Mendelssohn.
A Musical MS. Scrap-book, containing Notes of Rockstro’s lessons; also pieces copied by Butler, including some composed by him for Alfred to learn.
VIII. MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS
FORMERLY THE PROPERTY OF OR RELATING TO SAMUEL BUTLER
Thomas Harris, of Shrewsbury.
Butler when a boy was amused by the advertisement put up over his shop by this man, who was a baker. He copied or invented the two pictures showing Harris (1) making bride cakes, (2) making funeral cakes, and composed the music. Miss Butler showed it to me at Shrewsbury in June or July, 1902, and I copied it.
MS. copies of “The New Scriptures,” according to Darwin, Tyndall, Huxley and Spencer.
The first twenty-four verses of this appeared in an American paper (the Index, if I remember right) many years ago. They were given to me by Herbert Phipson; I showed them to Butler; he copied them and composed verses 25 to 33.
Testimonials by Eyre Crowe, A.R.A.; G. K. Fortescue; R. Garnett, LL.D.; A. C. Gow, A.R.A.; T. Heatherley; the Rev. B. H. Kennedy, D.D.; Henry Stacy Marks, R.A.; and W. T. Marriott, M.P., submitted by Butler in 1886 when a Candidate for the Slade Professorship of Fine Art at Cambridge.
Two numbers of the Parish Magazine of St. Augustine’s, Kilburn, Mar. 1887 and April 1887.
Between pp. 80 and 81 of the March number are unsuitable advertisements of Pears’ Soap involving the Bishop Q of Wangaloo and Lillie Langtry. Their appearance drew from the Editor, pp. 97 and 112 of the April number, an expression of regret, distress, and surprise, and a statement that precautions had been taken against any occurrence of a similar nature in future. If I remember right Miss Savage sent these to Butler and they are referred to in their correspondence, but perhaps not in any of the letters included in the Memoir.
Review of “Luck or Cunning?” written by George Bernard Shaw, which appeared in the Pall Mall Gazette, 31st May, 1887.
This was given to me by Dan Rider, who told me that Bernard Shaw’s original review, which he wrote off his own bat, was very much more laudatory and much longer, but the Editor of the Pall Mall Gazette cut it down in length and took out some of the praise because he was afraid of offending the Darwins and their friends.
A collection of Butler’s Letters to the Athenæum and the Academy and other contributions to the press. See the Memoir.
20 Marzo 1893. Nomination of Butler as Socio Corrispondente of the Accademia di Scienze, Lettere, ed Arti de’Zelanti di Aci-Reale.
4 Luglio 1893. Nomination of Butler as Socio Corrispondente of the Accademia Dafnica di Scienze, Lettere, ed Arti in Aci-Reale.
An envelope containing papers relating to Dr. Butler and to Butler’s Life of him, which appeared in 1896.
Statement as to the position of the violinist Mademoiselle Gabrielle Vaillant, May 1897.
She occurs in the Memoir. She broke down, and a few hundred pounds were raised to help her.
A collection of obituary notices of Butler. 1902.
Two collections of notices of Butler’s books, one made by Butler, the other by Streatfeild.
Particulars and Conditions of Sale of such of Butler’s houses near London as were sold after his death, Oct. 1902.
A parcel of newspapers, mostly The Press and The Weekly Press of New Zealand, referring to Butler and to his contributions to the New Zealand press. Some of his early contributions are reprinted. See A First Year in Canterbury Settlement (1914), Introduction.
A collection of letters and papers relating to the Erewhon Dinners.
An envelope containing pièces justificatives in connection with the “Diary of a Journey,” by H. F. Jones. 1903.
The Cambridge Magazine for 1 March 1913, containing “Samuel Butler and the Simeonites,” by A. T. Bartholomew. See A First Year in Canterbury Settlement (1914), pp. 266-272.
Catalogue of the Butler Collection at St. John’s College, Cambridge. Pts. 1-3. Extracted from The Eagle for March and June 1918 and for June 1919. (No more published in this form.)
Menu of Dinner given to Henry Festing Jones on the completion of the Memoir of Butler, the hosts being Mansfield Duval Forbes and A. T. Bartholomew, 11th Nov. 1916, in Forbes’s rooms, Clare College, Cambridge. Each course is illustrated by an appropriate quotation from the Memoir.
Menu of Dinner given to Henry Festing Jones on the publication of his Memoir of Butler by A. T. Bartholomew at the University Arms Hotel, Cambridge, 22 Nov. 1919.
A collection of pièces justificatives, permissions to print letters in the Memoir of Butler, and the original MSS. of Reminiscences of Butler therein included by Miss Aldrich, Rev. Cuthbert Creighton, the Hon. Mrs. Richard Cecil Grosvenor, H. R. Robertson.
A collection of newspaper cuttings, being reviews and notices of the Memoir.
A collection of letters received by H. F. Jones on the publication of the Memoir.
IX. PRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS
FORMERLY THE PROPERTY OF OR RELATING TO SAMUEL BUTLER
An engraving of “The Fortune Teller,” by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
An engraving of “The Woodman,” by Gainsborough.
A print of a view of “Clifford’s Inn Hall from the Garden.” 1800.
A paper about Clifford’s Inn, extracted from “Picturesque Views and an Historical Account of the Inns of Court,” by Samuel Ireland, published in the year 1800.
An envelope containing prints of the photograph of Butler’s Fireplace, 15 Clifford’s Inn.
Six boxes of photographic negatives. Portraits and Italian works of art.
Five volumes of prints of snap-shots by Butler.
Photographs illustrating Butler’s notions about the Portraits of Gentile and Giovanni Bellini as to which he wrote to the Athenæum, 20 Feb. 1886. (Memoir, ch. xxv.)
Photographs to illustrate his notions about the Holbein drawing, “La Danse,” dealt with in the article in the Universal Review, “L’Affaire Holbein-Rippel.” Together with various papers relating to the same matter. This article was not reproduced in Essays on Life, Art and Science (afterwards The Humour of Homer) because of the trouble of reproducing the illustrations, but it is among the Universal Review articles bound together and included in this catalogue (p. 19).
A print of the great statue of S. Carlo Borromeo, near Arona, called “S. Carlone.”
A collection of photographs of Italian pictures, unmounted.
Three large cards with photographs of the fresco by Gaudenzio Ferrari which is in S. Maria delle Grazie at Varallo-Sesia. It is in twenty-one compartments.
Two cards, not so large, with photographs of pictures and frescoes by Gaudenzio. One of these reproduces frescoes and pictures in the Crucifixion Chapel at Varallo. In the left-hand bottom corner is the whole of the fresco in S. Maria delle Grazie showing how the twenty-one compartments are placed. The other card contains Gaudenzio’s frescoes in the Church of S. Cristoforo at Vercelli.
A card with five photographs, two of the frescoes at Busto Arsizio near Varese—at least, I think that is where they are. One is “St. John Baptist’s head in a charger,” the other “The baptism in the Jordan.” Butler particularly liked the scratchings of names and dates on the former. The other three photographs are of pictures. The foregoing six cards (three, two and one) used to hang framed in Butler’s chambers.
A woman in a black dress from Lima. Used by Butler to make female heads for sale, but he was not successful.
The Weekly Press, N.Z., 21st Mar. 1917. Page 26 contains views of Butler’s homestead at Mesopotamia.
Two views of Butler’s homestead, Mesopotamia, New Zealand, extracted from the Press.
A view of the ruins of Hagiar Chem (Haggiar Kim in Malta).
A card with five photographic views. Two are the Garden at Langar. One is at Langar, Mrs. Barratt. Cf. snapshot album, 891, p 27. The remaining two are huts or whares in New Zealand, one being “Whare at Mount Peel Station, Oct. 14.”
X. PORTRAITS
FORMERLY THE PROPERTY OF OR RELATING TO SAMUEL BUTLER
Butler’s Photograph Album.
I have written the names against those portraits of whose identity I am certain. The cabinet photograph of Canon Butler resembles the father in “Family Prayers”; but Butler cannot have used this photograph, which was done when Canon Butler was an old man, for a picture painted in 1864.
Photographs of S. Butler:
(1) Soon after his return from New Zealand.
(2) 1866.
(3) Taken by Mrs. Bridges in the garden at Langar about 1866.
(4) His identification photograph at the Paris Exhibition, 1867. 2 copies.
(5) At Milan about 1886.
(6) At 15 Clifford’s Inn, by Alfred, about 1888.
(7) At 15 Clifford’s Inn, by Alfred, about 1889.
(8) Taken at The Long House, Leatherhead, by Mr. Pidgeon, about 1894.
(9) Taken by Russell in 1901. Given by Butler to Streatfeild.
The Rev. T. Butler, of Wilderhope House, Shrewsbury, Butler’s father.
Mrs. Butler, Butler’s mother.
Tom Butler, Butler’s brother.
Miss Eliza Mary Anne Savage.
Three photographs of Charles Paine Pauli, two on cards and one on glass.
Butler kept the glass one on his mantelpiece until Pauli’s death in 1897. Then he removed it. He would have removed it earlier, but Pauli came to his rooms to lunch three times a week, and would have noticed its absence. For Pauli see the Memoir.
Hans Rudolf Faesch as a boy.
Hans Rudolf Faesch, taken by Butler in 1893.
Cavaliere Biagio Ingroja of Calatafimi.
Professore Alberto Giacalone-Patti of Trapani.
William Smith Rockstro, who used to teach Butler counterpoint. See the Memoir. Taken by Butler at 15 Clifford’s Inn, 10 Oct. 1890.
Charles Gogin }
Joseph Benwell Clark } All taken by Butler at 15 Clifford’s Inn.
Edward James Jones }
An engraving of G. A. Paley and letter from Mr. Barton Hill (on behalf of Henry Graves and Co.) to H. F. Jones identifying the portrait.
A card with photographs of twelve of Butler’s College friends.
XI. EFFECTS
FORMERLY THE PERSONAL PROPERTY OF SAMUEL BUTLER
One mahogany table with two flaps.
Butler used this table for his meals, for his writing, and for all purposes to which a table can be put. A corner of it covered with a red cloth is seen in the picture of the interior of his room. See p. 4, no. 9.
Sandwich case.
This he took with him on his Sunday walks and sketching excursions.
Passport.
Pocket magnifying glass.
Address book.
Homeopathic medicine case.
He always took this with him on his travels.
Two account books, 1897-1900 and 1900-1902.
Butler destroyed his early account books when he made the Skeleton Diary of his life which is in Vol. III. of his MS. Note-Books. After his death the remaining account books were destroyed except these two.
Books in which Butler used to keep his accounts by double entry. The handwriting during the early years is Butler’s, afterwards it is Alfred’s. Journal, 1895-1902; Cash Book, 1881-1899; Cash Book, 1899-1902; Union Bank Book, 1881-1902; Ledger.
A set of books containing accounts for his published works.
Two of the small note-books which after April 1882 Butler always carried in his pocket and in which he made the notes afterwards copied into his full-size MS. Note-Books.
Before 1882 he used some other kind of pocket note-book. The first one he had of this kind was sent to him by Miss Savage in a letter of 18th April, 1882, from which the following is an extract; the words in square brackets are a note by Butler on Miss Savage’s letter.
“I send you a little present; the leaves tear out, so that when you leave your note-book at the “Food of Health” [I don’t remember ever going to the “Food of Health.” I do not know the place. S. B.] or elsewhere, as you sometimes have done, you will not lose so much, and then you can put the torn leaves into one of the little drawers in your cabinet which is just made for such documents.” (Memoir, I. 373.)
The cabinet she refers to was one of the two Japanese cabinets, the next items, which he had bought at Neighbour’s grocery and tea-shop in Oxford Street, and which she had seen in his rooms. He used to keep stamps in them.
One small Japanese cabinet.
One larger Japanese cabinet.
Two pen trays.
One camera lucida with table (see the Memoir).
One round wood-carving: a female bust.
Two large dishes, German or Swiss, which stood on his table.
One tin case holding pencils and brushes for water-colour sketching.
One tin water-bottle for sketching. One sketching camp-stool. One sketching portfolio. One water-colour paint-box.
One sloping desk.
“I shoud explain that I cannot write unless I have a sloping desk.” See “Quis desiderio—” (The Humour of Homer). This is the sloping desk on which he wrote in Clifford’s Inn.
One pair of chamois horns given him by Dionigi Negri at Varallo Sesia.
One handle and webbing in which he carried his books to and from the British Museum.
A photograph showing one wall of Butler’s chambers in Clifford’s Inn with the fireplace and accompanying sketch plan.
Some of the pictures mentioned in Section I. of this Catalogue can be identified, and also the following nine items, which are on the mantelpiece or on the wall. The two dolls (no. 9) were destroyed by Butler about 1898; the other eight objects are included in this collection at St. John’s.
One pair of pewter candlesticks (1).
One plate, which he called “Three Acres and a Cow,” because it seems to be decorated in illustration of that catch-word (3).
Two crockery holy water holders; only one is shown in the photograph (4).
Three medallions under glass, representing, in some kind of plaster, the Madonna di Oropa (5).
Three crockery examples of “the Virgin with Child” (6).
One only is shown in the photo. One of these is from Oropa where the Virgin and Child are both black, see “A Medieval Girl-School” in The Humour of Homer. These holy water holders and Madonnas are some of the cheap religious knick-knacks which are sold at most Italian Sanctuaries. We often brought back a few and gave them away to Gogin, Alfred, Clark, and other friends.
Bag for pennies (7).
Miss Savage’s kettle-holder (8).
In Oct. 1884 (see the Memoir), about four months before her death, Miss Savage sent Butler a present of a pair of socks which she had knitted herself, and she promised to make him some more. Butler gratefully accepted her gift, but
“As for doing me any more, I flatly forbid it. I believe you don’t like my books, and want to make me say I won’t give you any more if you make me any more socks; and then you will make me some more in order not to get the books. No, I will let you read my stupid books in manuscript and help me that way. If you like to make me a kettle-holder, you may, for I only have one just now, and I like to have two because I always mislay one; but I won’t have people working their fingers out to knit me stockings.”
Miss Savage to Butler, 27th Oct. 1884: “Here is a kettle-holder. And I can only say that a man who is equal to the control of two kettle-holders fills me with awe, and I shall begin to be afraid of you. . . . The kettle-holder is very clumsy and ugly, but please to remember that I am not a many-sided genius, and to expect me to excel in kettle-holders and stockings is unreasonable. I take credit to myself, however, for affixing a fetter to it, so that you may chain it up if it is too much disposed to wander. My expectation is that it is too thick for you to grasp the kettle with, and the kettle will slip out of your hand and scald you frightfully. I shall be sorry for you but you would have it, so upon your own head be it.”
Butler to Miss Savage, 28th Oct. 1884: “The kettle-holder is beautiful; it is like a filleted sole, and I am very fond of filleted sole. It is not at all too thick, and fits my kettle to perfection.”
The subject is developed antiphonally between Miss Savage and Butler throughout several letters, and near the close comes this note made by Butler when “editing his remains” at the end of his life:
“I need hardly say that the kettle-holder hangs by its fetter on the wall beside my fire, and is not allowed to be used by anyone but myself. S.B. January 21st, 1902.”
Two small Dutch dolls (9)
Mr. Charles Archer Cook was at Trinity Hall with me. He is mentioned in the Memoir as having edited The Athenæum in October, 1885, during the absence of MacColl, the editor. Butler and I sometimes dined with him and met his brother, Mr. (afterwards Sir) Edward T. Cook and his wife. Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Cook came to tea with Butler, and Alfred was showing them round the sitting room, while Butler was in his painting room, where he had gone to look for something.
“These are the pictures which the governor does when he is away,” said Alfred, “and these are the photographs which he brings back with him and the plates and images.”
“And please, Alfred, what are these two little dolls among the pictures?”
“Oh, those, ma’am! Those are ---.”
“Alfred!” exclaimed the reproving voice of Butler, who although in the next room, had overheard.
“Well, Sir,” replied Alfred, “that’s what we always call them.”
Alfred was referring to a recent divorce case in which the names of two ladies had been brought prominently before the public, but Butler did not approve of the names being blurted out in the presence of visitors.
A brass bowl which my brother Edward brought from India.
It always stood on my table in Staple Inn, and Butler used it as an ash-tray and played with it and liked the sound it made when he struck it. He also liked its shape, and was pleased with it for not being “spoilt by any silly ornament.” It is mentioned in the Memoir (II. xliii.) when Miss Butler comes to my rooms after Butler’s death.
A leather (or sham leather) cigarette case from Palermo (but, I am afraid, made in Germany).
It contains a fragment of a Greek vase picked up on Mount Eryx and given to Butler by Bruno Flury. He was one of the young men who came about him in 1892 when he broke his foot on the mountain; he afterwards settled in Pisa, where I saw him in 1901.
Two of the blue and white wine cups mentioned in Alps and Sanctuaries (ch. xxii.; new ed., ch. xxiii.), “A Day at the Cantine.”
“These little cups are common crockery, but at the bottom there is written Viva Bacco, Viva l’Italia, Viva la Gioia, Viva Venere or other
such matter; they are to be had in every crockery shop throughout the Mendrisiotto, and they are very pretty.”
The Viva is not written in full; it is represented by a double V, which overlaps, so that it looks like W, but the letter W is not used by the Italians, so there is no chance of its being mistaken by them for anything but the symbol meaning Viva.
A small horn and tortoiseshell snuff-box from Palermo.
It contains three coins wrapped in paper and a piece of the pilgrim’s cross at Varello-Sesia. The cross is mentioned somewhere in Butler’s books as being of very hard wood, so hard that the pilgrims have great difficulty in cutting pieces off it. So had I in cutting off this bit.
The day after Butler’s death Alfred came to me with the coins and said:
“I took these out of his pockets, Sir; I thought you ought to have them.”
Butler’s watch and chain.
Butler used to possess his grandfather’s gold watch and chain. He was robbed of the watch in Hyde Park one night just before starting on one of his journeys to Canada; he then bought this silver watch at Benson’s, and, if I remember right, wore it with the gold chain. He was robbed of the chain in Fetter Lane, Oct. 1893 (Memoir, II. 167). He then bought a silver chain, which, with the silver watch, passed under his will to Alfred. Alfred wore them until 1919, when the watch was declared by an expert to be beyond repair. I took it from him, giving him in exchange the watch of my brother Charlie, who had recently died.
The matchbox which Alfred gave to Butler.
When Alfred knew that I was handing Butler’s watch and chain on to St. John’s College, he said:
“And then, Sir, they had better have this matchbox which I gave him.”
I looked at it and said, “Well, but Alfred, how can that be? It is dated 1894, and he gave your matchbox to the Turk in 1895.”
“I know he did, Sir; and when he told me I was very angry and went out into Holborn and bought this one and had it engraved same as the other.”
“With the old date?”
“Yes, Sir, just the same as the one he gave to the Turk.” See the Note-Books, p. 286.
WORKS BY SAMUEL BUTLER.
London: A. C. Fifield, 13, Clifford’s Inn, E.C. 4.
A First Year in Canterbury Settlement. New Edition, with other early essays. 7s. net.
Erewhon. 14th Impression of Tenth Edition. 6s. net.
The Fair Haven. New Edition. 7s. net.
Life and Habit. Third Edition, with Addenda. 7s. net.
Evolution Old and New. Third Edition, with Addenda. 7s. net.
Unconscious Memory. Third Edition, with Introduction by Marcus Hartog. 8s. 6d. net.
Alps and Sanctuaries. New and enlarged Edition. Illustrated. 7s. 6d. net.
Luck or Cunning? Second Edition, corrected. 8s. 6d. net.
The Authoress of the Odyssey. Illustrated. Reprinting.
The Iliad rendered into English Prose. 7s. net.
Shakespeare’s Sonnets Reconsidered. 8s. 6d. net.
The Odyssey rendered into English Prose. Illustrated. 8s. 6d. net.
Erewhon Revisited. 8th Impression. 5s. net.
The Way of All Flesh. 12th Impression of Second Edition. 7s. net.
The Humour of Homer and Other Essays. With Portrait and Biographical Sketch of the Author by H. F. Jones. 7s. net.
God the Known And God the Unknown. 2s. 6d. net.
The Notebooks of Samuel Butler. With Portrait. Ed. by H. F. Jones. 5th Impression. 7s. net.
Ex Voto. Illustrated. To be reprinted.
Selections. Arranged by S. Butler. Out of print.
The Life and Letters of Dr. Samuel Butler. 2 vols. Illustrated. Out of print.