72 LORD LILFORD 



Let me hear from you as often as you can find 

 time to write : every scrap of ornithological 

 knowledge is most welcome to me. I am only 

 waiting for the arrival of some English powder 

 to start for Sardinia. I have no intention, unless 

 my parents insist upon it, of re-visiting England 

 for another two or three years. I am sick of 

 black hats and conventionalities. Your objec- 

 tions to Spain are, I think I may say, groundless. 

 Garlic certainly exists, but the consumption of 

 it is by no means compulsory. Good-bye ; do 

 write to 



' Yours most truly, 



1 T. L. POWTS.' 



