er helps the spectator to realise the progress made by Butler
in his artistic studies.

SAMUEL BUTLER

1. Black and white outline sketch: Civita Vecchia, 1854.

Butler went abroad with his family, his second visit to Italy, for the
winter of 1853-4. They travelled through Switzerland to Rome and Naples,
starting in August 1853, and Butler thus missed the half-year at school.
I am sorry that I have not found any more finished drawing made by him on
this occasion.

DOUGLAS YEOMAN BLAKISTON

2. Pencil drawing: Samuel Butler, 1854.

Reproduced in the _Memoir_, ch. iii. On the back of this drawing is the
beginning of a water-colour sketch. It was in a book with others
mentioned in the _Memoir_ as having been given to Shrewsbury School (I.
44). I have no doubt that the sketch on the back is by Butler, and
represents part of the Rectory house at Langar.

The Rev. D. Y. Blakiston was born in 1832. He studied art at the Royal
Academy Schools especially under W. Dobson, R.A. From about 1850 to 1865
he painted in London and at St. Leonard's, and exhibited at the Royal
Academy. About 1865 he entered at Downing College, took Orders in 1869,
and was presented to the living of East Grinstead in 1871, which he held
till his retirement soon after 1908. He died in 1914. Throughout his
life he made a practise of sketching his friends. I suppose he must have
met and sketched Butler on some occasion when Butler was in London
staying with his cousins the Worsleys. The artist's son, the Rev. H. E.
D. Blakiston, when President of Trinity College, Oxford, gave me a
cutting from _The East Grinstead Observer_ containing a full obituary of
him. It is among the papers at St. John's College, and is referred to in
the Postscript to the Preface to my _Memoir_ of Butler.

HENRY FESTING JONES

3. My first attempt at a drawing in pencil and ink of Butler's
Homestead, Mesopotamia, New Zealand.

I did it in 1910 or thereabouts from a faded photograph taken about 1863
and lent to Butler by J. D. Enys. _Also_ Emery Walker's reproduction of
my first attempt which was not used in the _Memoir_.

4. My second attempt, which was reproduced in the _Memoir_.

SAMUEL BUTLER

5. Water-colour: A view in Cambridge.

Probably done when Butler was an undergraduate, and given to St. John's
some years ago. I found it in the book wherein I found Blakiston's
drawing (no. 2).

6. Oil Painting: Family Prayers.

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