A Breton.
In a letter from London, received at the Abbey of St. Jacut in Brittany on the 29th August, 1878, he says:—
"I have not been able to settle well down to work yet. Sitting about on hotel benches for a month with Mr. Blackburn is unhinging. * * * "I fancied somehow that, after the wild career of dissipation in other parts of Brittany, he might find the calm of a cloister insufficiently exciting, and consequently might drag you round to more lively places. I am glad that I am wrong."
The drawings of the "Family Horse," (of "Cleopatra" on page [165],) the sketch in Woburn Park, and several others, were made when on a visit in the neighbourhood in October 1878. A letter referring to his visit to Woburn says:—"On the last evening of Mr. Caldecott's visit here, he was sitting at the dining-room table with the two little boys on his knees, and the rest of the family standing round him. We asked him to draw us each something, and he made us choose our own subjects. The sketch of himself riding in the park is one of them; it amused him very much to see the deer standing gazing at us."
