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LETTERS FROM GENERAL H. LYNEDOCH GARDINER, C.B. 
sular War, as lie often mentioned the loss of a tin case when 
disembarking from France with a good many drawings in it. 
Below the sketches are some engravings which I found, these relat¬ 
ing to his Court life; also a photograph of the Gardiner Battery at 
Gibraltar. He was selected for Equerry, on his return to England in 
1816, to Prince Leopold (afterwards King of the Belgians) and Princess 
Charlotte, then heiress to the throne. 
I propose later, when I have had time, to send some papers and 
letters relating to his campaigns, which can be placed in the small 
drawers at each end of the table. I have not found time to look over 
them thoroughly, but there are enough, I think, to be interesting to 
my brother officers. 
The table itself is a beautiful specimen of cabinet work, I believe, 
made by Banting in 1816, when it was a present from my uncle Sir 
John Gardiner (for many years Deputy-Adjutant-General at the Horse 
Guards) to my father on his marriage; it puts up, and forms a large 
desk to show off drawings or engravings, and I hope will make itself 
useful in that way. 
Will you kindly communicate my offer to the Commandant at Wool¬ 
wich. 
I am moving to a house which the Queen has placed at my disposal 
in Richmond Park, and the table would be available in the first week of 
next month for removal to the Institution if my offer be accepted.— 
Yours sincerely, 
Lynedoch Gardiner, General. 
Major-General Williams, 
Deputy- Adjutant-General.” 
“109, Cromwell Road, S.W., 
Wednesday, 19 April, 1893. 
Dear Captain Abdy, 
I am afraid my friend General Williams has given you a too 
favourable account of my father's drawings. 
They are merely sketches, and he was quite self-taught, but they are 
interesting from having been made while campaigning—they cannot 
be called f pictures.' 
I have a very pretty little water-colour drawing, framed by my old 
friend Arthur Taylor, which I could give you for your collection.— 
Yours very truly, 
Lynedoch Gardiner." 
“ 109, Cromwell Road, S.W., 
26 April, 1893. 
Dear Captain Abdy, 
There are four very small side drawers, two at each end of the 
drawing table, and in these I have left what I found there belonging to 
