LEWES." * * * * * The lady in the balcony spoken of in the above letter was Signora Mignaty, the niece of Sir Frederick Adam, whom I had known long years previously in Rome, and who had married Signor Mignaty, a Greek artist, and was (and is) living in Florence.

She was, in fact, the niece of the Greek lady Sir Frederick married.

I remember her aunt, a very beautiful woman.

The niece, Signorina Margherita Albani as she was when I first knew her at eighteen years old in Rome, inherited so much of the beauty of her race that the Roman artists were constantly imploring her to sit for them.

She has made herself known in the literary world by several works, especially by a recent book on Correggio, his life and works, published in French.
The next letter from Lewes, written from Blandford Square on the 2nd June, without date of year, but probably 1863, is of more interest to myself than to the public.