W. R. D. S.
Catalogue of Pictures.
—Some information is requested of an octavo volume of 252 pages, being a catalogue of a collection of pictures consigned to Mr. Samuel Pawson, wine merchant in Cecil Street, Strand, without date or name, or residence of printer; it contains succinct annotations "of the several masters whose performances are herewith exhibited." These are very curious, and the prices affixed to each picture (800 in number), as added together by some possessor of the volume, amount to 55,379l. It appears to have been highly esteemed; and, amongst other autographs, has "J. P. Roberts, Kingsgate;" "J. P. Powell, Quex park."
E. D.
"Well bobbit, Blanch of Middleby."
—Can any one tell me where I can hear of an old tune which was well known in my father's early days, called "Well bobbit, Blanch of Middleby?" I can now find no trace of it.
L. M. M. R.
Letter to a Brigadier-General.
—If Thomas Lord Lyttelton wrote the Letters of Junius, who was the author of the Letter to a Brigadier-General, published in 1760? This letter is now very generally believed to have been written by Junius, when Thomas Lyttelton was about fourteen years old!
W. C.