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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. 
‘ 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. 
‘ Sincerely yours, 
‘ C, B, Phipps.’ 
In December 1862, Owen inaugurated the 
Leeds Institution, and he writes to his sister Eliza 
on the i8th : ‘ 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,'^ 
who has a wonderful collection of d urner 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.’ 
® Owen makes a note in his gentleman was a ‘ descendant of 
letter to the effect that this Guy F.’ 
