Notices to Correspondents.
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E. H. H. Caxton's Press is certainly not in Westminster Abbey: we may add, certainly not in existence.
Tee Bee. The quotation is from Pope's Moral Essays, Epist. IV.:
"To rest the cushion and soft Dean invite,
Who never mentions hell to ears polite."
S. Jennings-G. We have a Note for this Correspondent. Where shall it be sent?
H. E. P. T. (Woolwich). What Numbers are wanted?
Earldom of Oxford. M. D., whose communication on this subject appears in our No. for Feb. 12., p. 153., writes to us that he has been misinformed, inasmuch as two of the sisters of Alfred, the last Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, have sons.
F. K. (Clonea) is requested to state the subjects of the two Queries to which he refers.
J. M. (Bath). The Note has been forwarded.
Shaw: Spinney: Hurst. H. E. P. T. will find, on reference to Richardson's Dictionary, that Shaw is from the A.-S. Scua, a Shadow; and Hurst from the A.-S. Hurst, a Wood. Spinney is probably from the Latin Spinetum, a place where thorny bushes grow.
J. G. (Dorchester)'s Query on the Lisle Family shall appear next week.
F. B. The term Benedict, applied to a married man, is doubtless derived from Shakspeare's "Benedict, the Married Man."
Tyro. The fault must be in your Chemicals, or in your manipulation. Try again, with Chemicals procured from a different source.
E. B. S. Dr. Diamond's result, and mode of arriving at it, will be given in his forthcoming Photographic Notes.
Erratum.—P. 105., Lord Duff's Toast, read "Q. R. S. Quickly Restore Stewart," instead of "Resolve."
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