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SAMUEL BUTLER
Inscribed thus: "Portrait of E. J. Jones, Esq., of the Indian Geological Survey, Aet. Suae 24, painted by S. Butler, November, 1883." The date is not clearly written, but it must be 1883, because my brother Edward, born 5th September, 1859, was twenty-four in 1883, and in November 1883 he went to Calcutta, having obtained an appointment on the Geological Survey. Butler painted the portrait just before he started.
It looks in some lights like 1881, but in other lights 1887, and it must be 1887. Butler did not go abroad in 1881 and he was at Chiavenna in 1887. This is one of the pictures given by Alfred.
THOMAS SADLER
SAMUEL BUTLER
Butler intended to finish this, and send it to the Royal Academy, but he got tired of it and turned it up.
THOMAS SADLER
Sadler made these two drawings about 1890 from photographs taken by Butler in 1888.
SAMUEL BUTLER
I forget the precise date, but I think it was about 1898, when Butler was searching in real landscape for the original of the castle which appears in the background of one of the Giovanni Bellini pictures of the Madonna and Child in the National Gallery, the one with the bird on the tree and the man ploughing. It may now be attributed to some other Venetian painter. He would have been pleased if he could have found the original of the background of any picture by one of his favourite painters. This copy was made to fix in his mind the castle on the hill, which he hoped afterwards to identify with some real place. But he never succeeded.
HENRY FESTING JONES
In these rooms Butler nearly always spent his evenings from 1893, when I moved into them, until the end of his life. The frames of these pictures are veneered with oak from the Hall of Staple Inn, and into each are inserted two buttons showing the wool-pack, the badge of the Inn, which is said to be named from the Wool-Staplers.
When Butler and I were on the Rigi-Scheidegg with Hans Faesch in 1900 I had these two sketches with me, and was showing them to the landlord, who spoke English. He looked at them and considered them carefully for some moments. Then he said gravely "Ah I see; much things. That means dustings; and then breakings; and then hangriness."
SAMUEL BUTLER
We went often to Meien to sketch when we were staying at Wassen on the S. Gottardo. We took our lunch with us, and ate it at the fountain in the village. "The old priest also came to the fountain to wash his shutters, which had been taken down for the summer, and it was now time to bring them out again and replace them for the winter" . The house on the left is the priest's house, and the shutters are already up at one of his windows.
He wished to make a more complete version of no. 68, but this was as far as he could get; there was not enough time and there were too many interruptions.
I added "S. Butler." He could not continue because there came on a terrific scirocco which lasted two or three days.
This shows the fragments of the stones that are strewn about in the orchestra which Butler said were like the fragments of My Duty towards My Neighbour that lay strewn about in his memory. It would take a lot of work to put them all back into their places and reconstruct the original.
Two views showing how Marettimo is hidden by Levanzo when you are below and comes out over Levanzo when you are up Mount Eryx.
HENRY FESTING JONES
I saw I should not have time to finish it, and, instead, did no. 80.
I did all these under Butler's auspices, and often he was sitting near doing another sketch of much the same view. It may be said that they are the work of his pupil.
SAMUEL BUTLER AND OTHERS
This is the portfolio containing the small water-colour of Dieppe, 1866. I have given that the prominence of a place because it is interesting to compare it with the more finished Dieppe, no. 10. Possibly the portfolio contains others , which it will be thought proper to take out and have mounted and framed.
THE EAGLE
A FIRST YEAR IN CANTERBURY SETTLEMENT
THE EVIDENCE FOR THE RESURRECTION
EREWHON
THE FAIR HAVEN
THE CANADA TANNING EXTRACT CO., LTD.
LIFE AND HABIT
EVOLUTION OLD AND NEW
UNCONSCIOUS MEMORY
ALPS AND SANCTUARIES
No date. A copy with Fifield's title-page.
GAVOTTES, MINUETS, FUGUES BY SAMUEL BUTLER AND HENRY FESTING JONES
SELECTIONS FROM PREVIOUS WORKS
HOLBEIN
LUCK OR CUNNING?
. Re-issue .
NARCISSUS: A CANTATA BY S. BUTLER AND H. F. JONES
EX VOTO
. Re-issue .
UNIVERSAL REVIEW ARTICLES
ESSAYS ON LIFE, ART, AND SCIENCE
THE HUMOUR OF HOMER AND OTHER ESSAYS
ITALIAN PAMPHLETS
ENGLISH PAMPHLETS, ETC.
No date. Sample passages from a new translation of the Odyssey.
THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF DR. SAMUEL BUTLER 2 Vols.
. Re-issue .
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