The Bawdrick or Baldrock, (Illustrated Correction.)—Few people feel inclined to acknowledge an error, or to make a correction. See Willis's "Current Notes" for February last (p. 16), where Sir Walter Scott's remark is quoted, that "it is ill making holes in one's own stockings for the purpose of darning them again, darn we never so neatly." However, G. W. is always happy—not to feel himself in the wrong—but to correct any mistake which inadvertently he or his agents may have made. He has therefore no hesitation about printing the following communication.
"H. T. E. informs G. W. that the engraver of the sketch of the Bawdrick, which appeared in the last number of the "Current Notes" (p. 5), has omitted one important reference, and a letter of reference, (which H. T. E. believes he sent).
"In fig. 2, letter B, all is right.
"But in fig. 1, letter B is wrong; it should have been by the side, and where that B is should have been an E, which was thus described:
"E. A piece of hard wood, placed between the staple and the end of the clapper, which is made steady to the clapper by D, the busk board, &c.
"As engraved, H. T. E. fears it will be a terrible puzzler to the uninitiated in Campanology, and even Campanologists will wonder at the confusion. The upper joint should have been thus, and the lower joint square (but G. W.'s artist has reversed the thing), for it is at B that the clapper swings.
"Still it is well to have got the thing shewn to the public, and H. T. E. thanks G. W., and supposes all blunders must be set down to his correspondent's fault of indistinct writing."
Strood, Rochester, 13th Feb. 1852.