This is one of the pictures given by Alfred.

THOMAS SADLER

60. Black and white drawing: Butler and Scotto in 1888.

Sadler made this for the _Pall Mall Gazette_ from the photograph which is
reproduced in _Ex Voto_; the drawing was reproduced in an article, and a
cutting from the _Pall Mall_ with the reproduction is with the papers
given to St. John's.

SAMUEL BUTLER

61. Oil Painting: Wembley, Middlesex. Sketch of the back of the Green
Man public-house, since burnt down.

Butler intended to finish this, and send it to the Royal Academy, but he
got tired of it and turned it up.

THOMAS SADLER

62. Water-colour drawing of the Vecchietto in the Deposition Chapel at
Varallo-Sesia.

63. Water-colour drawing in black and white of a boy with a basket at
Varallo.

Sadler made these two drawings about 1890 from photographs taken by
Butler in 1888.

SAMUEL BUTLER

64. Water-colour: copy of a landscape behind a small Madonna and Child
by Bartolomeo Veneto, signed and dated 1505.

I forget the precise date, but I think it was about 1898, when Butler was
searching in real landscape for the original of the castle which appears
in the background of one of the Giovanni Bellini pictures of the Madonna
and Child in the National Gallery, the one with the bird on the tree and
the man ploughing. It may now be attributed to some other Venetian
painter. He would have been pleased if he could have found the original
of the background of any picture by one of his favourite painters. This
copy was made to fix in his mind the castle on the hill, which he hoped
afterwards to identify with some real place. But he never succeeded.

HENRY FESTING JONES

65. Water-colour: Jones's chambers in Staple Inn, Holborn. 1899.

66. Water-colour: another view in the same room. 1899.

In these rooms Butler nearly always spent his evenings from 1893, when I
moved into them, until the end of his life. The frames of these pictures
are veneered with oak from the Hall of Staple Inn, and into each are
inserted two buttons showing the wool-pack, the badge of the Inn, which
is said to be named from the Wool-Staplers.

When Butler and I were on the Rigi-Scheidegg with Hans Faesch in 1900 I
had these two sketches with me, and was showing them to the landlord, who
spoke English. He looked at them and considered them carefully for some
moments. Then he said gravely "Ah I see; much things. That means