LETTER XXV 



Grove End Road Changes in St. John's Wood Sir Edwin Land- 

 seer's House T. H. Hills Landscer's Butler Anecdote of 

 H.R.H. the Prince Consort Description of Sir Edwin's 

 Appearance Miss Jessy Landseer Sir Edwin's Garden 

 Original Cottage New House Studio His Nervousness 

 Royal Portrait Picture Birth of Twin Lambs Landseer's 

 Luggage Kindness to Animals Clipping Dogs' Ears 

 Hengler's Circus. 



6th August, 1895. 



DEAR MARCO I was up in town last week 

 and the week before, strange to say, staying 

 at my old house in the Grove End Road. I 

 went there to paint the portrait of a little 

 granddaughter of Sir William Agnew. It was 

 curious that I should be thus painting in my 

 old studio, which I built, but which is no 

 longer mine. In the afternoons I sometimes 

 walked about the well-remembered neigh- 



