are my detached initials, but I could write my whole name in 'Devanagiri,' or 'Writing of the Gods.'"
To A.E.
Ecclesfield. December 8, 1882.
... I got back from Liverpool on Monday. When I called at the Museum on that morning a Dr. Palmer was there, who said, "I was in Taku Forts with your husband," and was very friendly. He gave me a prescription for neuralgia! and sent you his best remembrances.
First and last I have annexed one or two nice "bits of wool for our nest." For 8s. (a price for which I could not have bought the frame, a black one with charming old-fashioned gold-beading of this pattern) [sketch] I bought a real fine old soft mezzotint, after Sir Joshua Reynolds' portrait of Richard Burke. Oh, such a lovely face! Looking lovelier in powder and lace frill. But a charming thing, with an old-fashioned stanza in English deploring his early death, and a motto in Latin. It was a great find, and I carried it home from the Pawnbroker's in triumph!—
I have got a very nice Irish anecdote for you from Mr. Shee:
Two Irishmen (not much accustomed to fashionable circles) at a big party, standing near the door. After a long silence:
Paddy I.—"D'ye mix much in society?"
P. II.—"Not more than six tumblers in the evening."