…I'm sorry about this change of subject matter, which is entirely my fault. I'm afraid I'm rather like the old man in Edward Lear's nonsense book, the old man of Thermopylae who never did anything properly. And I've evidently got muddled in regard to the…

…left an account, for example, of how he He came to make a drawing, drawings of William Wallace, the Scotch hero, and of Edward I. He says, I was sitting, meditating, as I had often done, on the heroic actions of the Scottish hero, Sir William Wallace,…

…had come, I begged him to remain for a few minutes. The hero smiled, and I sketched him. Presently the phantom vanished, and Edward I, who also remained long enough to be sketched, took his place. Then there is a very interesting account by John Varley…