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sent to her. The Queen knows with what interest 

 this paper would have been read by the lamented 

 Prince, and she will attach particular value to it 

 as coming from one for whom he had a very high 

 respect and regard. 



1 There is not one of the royal family who does 

 not look back with pleasure to the lectures which 

 you were good enough to deliver to them, and at 

 which I had the high privilege of being allowed 

 to attend. 



1 Sincerely yours, 



' C. B. Phipps.' 



In December 1862, Owen inaugurated the 

 Leeds Institution, and he writes to his sister Eliza 

 on the 1 8th : ' The secretary of the " Institution " 

 was in waiting, and we drove first there, where I in- 

 spected the new museum, &c, &c, and then Mr. 

 James Marshall called and drove me to Headingly. 

 On Tuesday the inauguration came off, very 

 successfully. Yesterday Mr. Marshall drove me 

 to a country seat of a gentleman, Mr. Fawkes, 3 

 who has a wonderful collection of Turner's finest 

 paintings and drawings, and it happened to be a 

 bright sunny day for seeing them. This morning 

 I bade adieu to Headingly, and took my quarters 

 with an old medical friend in the town, for the 

 better convenience of my lectures, of which I gave 

 the first this evening.' 



3 Owen makes a note in his gentleman was a ' descendant of 

 letter to the effect that this Guy F.' 



