54 Correspondence of Lieut.-Col. J. L. Philips. 



himself an organiser and esteemed commander of the same 

 sturdy volunteer material out of which the immortal 

 "Seventy-second" was composed, and the financial guardian 

 of our greatest charity, amidst his books, prints, and paint- 

 ings, his trees, flowers, shells, and insects at Mayfield, as an 

 epitome and expression of the varied intellectual and 

 patriotic activities of the Manchester men of that remark- 

 able period in our local history. 



