ny of your correspondents inform us when the cassock was introduced as
an ecclesiastical dress, whether it was then worn by persons of other
vocations, and what was the ecclesiastical costume (if any) which it
superseded?

H. P.

_Inedited Letter of Lord Nelson_ (Vol. ix., p. 241.).--On behalf of the
precious pages of "N. & Q.," I beg leave to protest against printing as
_inedited_ what a very slight degree of research would have found to have
been long since published. The letter in question will be found in Clarke
and McArthur's _Life of Nelson_, vol. ii. p. 431., and in Nicolas's _Nelson
Despatches_, vol. vii. p. 75.

I am induced to notice this especially, in the hope that MR. JACOB, who
promises us future communications of the same class, may previously satisfy
himself that they are _inedited_.

C.

_Views in London by Canaletto_ (Vol. ix., p. 106.).--In reply to the
inquiry of your correspondent GONDOLA, with respect to views of London
painted by Canaletto, whose announcement of them he quotes, I beg to inform
him that I have in my collection one of these views, "The Thames from the
Temple Gardens," in which it is curious to trace, in Thames wherries, grave
Templars, and London atmosphere, the hand that was usually employed on
gondolas, maskers, and Italian skies. I believe that others of his London
views are in the collections of the Dukes of Northumberland and Buccleuch.

EDMUND PHIPPS.

Park Lane.

_Richard Geering_ (Vol. viii., p. 504.).--I thank JULIA R. BOCKETT for her
Reply, and if H. C. C. will send me a copy of the Geering pedigree and
arms, I shall feel much obliged, and should I succeed in discovering any
particulars of _Richard's_ ancestry, I shall willingly communicate the
result to him. I have already sent you my name and address, but not for
publication; and I added a stamped envelope, in case any person wished to
communicate directly with me. I can have no objection to your giving my
address privately to any one, but being "unknown to fame," I prefer
retaining in your pages the _incognito_ I have assumed. I quite agree with
the remarks of H. B. C. and MR. KING, Vol. viii., pp. 112. 182.

Y. S. M.

_Grafts and the Parent Tree_ (Vol. vii., pp. 365. 436. 486. 536.).--I was
equally surprised with H. C. K. at the dictum of MR. INGLEBY, that "grafts
after some fifteen years wear themselves out," but the ground for such a
belief is fairly suggested by J. G. (p. 536.), otherwise I am afraid the