6.  Pretty vignetted portrait of the little Miss J., three-quarter length, about size of page 29 of Old Christmas.  Scene, girl’s bedroom—­she with her back to mirror, face buried in her hands, “crying for the Black Captain”; her hair down to just short of her knees, the back of her hair catching light from window and reflected in the glass.  Old Miss Jessamine (portrait) talking to her “like a Dutch uncle” about the letter on the dressing-table; aristocratic outline against window, and (as Queen Anne died) “with one finger up"!!!!! (These portraits would make No. 2 needless probably.)

7.  Not worth while.  I had thought of a very small quay scene with slaves, a “black ivory”—­and a Quaker’s back! (Did you ever read the correspondence between Charles Napier and Mr. Gurney on Trade and War?)

8.  A very pretty elopement please!  Finger-post pointing to Scotland—­Captain not in uniform of course.

9 or 10—­hardly; too close to the elopement which we must have!

11.  You are sure to make that pretty.

12.  Might be a very small shallow vignette of the field of Waterloo.  I will look up the hours, etc., and send you word.

13.  As you please—­or any part of this chapter.

16.  I mean a tombstone like this [Sketch of flat-topped tombstone], very common with us.

17, 18.  I leave to you.

19 or 20, might suit you.

21.  Please let me try and get you a photo of a handsome old general!!  I think I will try for General MacMurdo, an old Indian hero of the most slashing description and great good looks.

22.  I thought some comic scene of a gentleman in feather-bed and nightcap with a paper—­“Rumours of Invasion” conspicuous—­might be vignetted into a corner.

23 might be fine, and go down side of page; quite alone as vignette, or distant indication of Jackanapes looking after or up at him.

24.  Should you require military information for any scene here?

25-26.  I hope you could see your way to 26.  Back view of horses—­“Lollo the 2nd” and a screw, Tony lying over his holding on by the neck and trying to get at his own reins from Jackanapes’ hand.  J.’s head turned to him in full glow of the sunset against which they ride; distant line of dust and “retreat” and curls of smoke.

The next chapter requires perhaps a good deal of “war material” to paint with, and strictly soldier-type faces.

27.  The cobbler giving his views might be a good study with an advertisement somewhere of the old “souled and healed cheap.”

28.  This scene I think you might like, and please on the wall have a hatchment with “Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori” (excuse my bad Latinity if I have misquoted).

29 would make a pretty scene, I think, and

30 would make me too happy if you scattered pretty groups and back views of the young people, “the Major” and one together, in one of your perfect bits of rural English summer-time.