“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).