It is written by Mrs.Lewes to my wife, from "The Priory, 30 December, 1879":-- * * * * * "DEAR MRS.

TROLLOPE,--I inclose the best photograph within my reach.
To me all portraits of him are objectionable, because I see him more vividly and truly without them.

But I think this is the most like what he was as you knew him.

I have sent your anecdote about the boy to Mr.
Du Maurier, whom it will suit exactly.

I asked Charles Lewes to copy it from your letter with your own pretty words of introduction.
"Yours affectionately, "M.E.