Michael D.Heath-Caldwell M.Arch.

1840 - 1841 - 1842

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George Heath Serjeant-at-Law  - age 61/62              1779-1852
Anne Raymond Heath (ne Dunbar) - age 53/54        1787-1842

Julia Anna Harrison (ne Heath) - age 33/34              1807-1879
John Moore Heath - aged 32/33                                1808-1882
Douglas Denon Heath - aged 29/30                          1811-1897
Dunbar Isidore Heath - age 24/25                             1816-1888
Leopold G. Heath R.N. - age 23/24                          1817-1907
Emma Jane Heath (later Whatman) - age 19/20       1821-1884

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29 January 1841
Charles Heath to Dawson Turner  (Banker)

My Dear Sir,
I write this in the greatest affliction and I feel sure that from the friendly feelings you have always expressed and the thousand acts of kindness I have experienced since 1825 that you will be grieved for me.

It is impossible my dear Sir in a letter to declare all the unfortunate circumstances that have compelled me to stop payment. But losses for several years past from unsuccessful publications, from bad debts in France and America, the difficulty, nay impossibility of getting any assistance in times like these and Messrs.Longmans, who have invariably behaved with the greatest liberality and who for many years past have advanced me as much as six thousand pounds writing to tell me that they must reduce that sum to one half and as I could not possibly being under heavy engagements during the year, go on with such means and where formerly I could always get assistance, I found it impossible to procure any.

All these things, combined, for every thing seems to come unlucky at once, has compelled me to this step.

I am endeavouring to arrange with (and all my principal Creditors are willing) to transfer in trust all the property I possess: To publish all my back Stock of Plates about 300 in cheap numbers and to devote all my time and attention for other benefit for the next two years by which means I hope to pay a very handsome dividend.

One of the greatest consolations I have is that you will be no loser as I believe you have only one Bill on Mr.Nutt, the other having been just paid and two Bills with Mrs.Petch's endorsement.

Now the only favour I have to request of you is to give her time for the second Bill - the first due I think on the first of February she will pay. As you know it was done to serve me as all her property is in Houses and not convertible but at great loss.

With respect to the two Bills for the old Debt I will leave it to you either for me to put them down on my list or to take my word for their liquidation at as early a period as possible.

I am afraid this letter is rather incoherent but my situation must plead my excuse.

Believe me to remain my Dear Sir with the greatest gratitude for all you past favour,
Your most sincerely obliged,
Charles Heath

I shall be obliged by your not promulgating this as I hope to effect the arrangement quietly and there is no use in more persons knowing it than is necessary.

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26 February 1841
Charles Heath to Dawson Turner (Banker)

My dear Sir,
I beg to thank you with the most heartfelt gratitude for you last kind and friendly letter and I now write to tell you that I have every hope that my affairs will be arranged by my paying ten shillings in the Pound and very probably more. I shall go on for three years under trustees Messrs.Bonsor. Mr.Bacon and Mr.L. Wesley

My Annuals will be published as usual and Messrs.Longman have in the most handsome manner volunteered to do anything in their power for me towards getting out these Books.

I shall have the pleasure of writing again when things are a little more settled.

With respect to the Bill for £200 due 3rd March as you are so kind as to agree to wait I have to request as a very great accommodation to my Mother in Law that the bill be carried on until about this time next year when her resources will be greater than at any other period. The first [?] £200 is regularly honoured.

I beg Dear Sir once more to say how greatly I am obliged and how sensibly I feel it and to assure you that I will do anything in my power to deserve your good opinion.

With best respects to yourself and Family, believe me, Dear Sir, Yours most sincerely,
Charles Heath

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4 March 1841
Charles Heath, 6 Seymour Place, London to Dawson Turner

My Dear Sir,
I am greatly obliged to you for your kind and friendly letter and I am happy to say that as far as things have gone at present I hope the arrangement will be carried into effect. Of course there are some few trifling sums that create a little trouble but I think it will be overcome.

I have the pleasure of sending you Mrs.Petch's promissory note for the £200 Bill due this day.

The interest I will either send you by Post in a letter on the 16th of the Month or place it on Messrs.Barclays as usual. Perhaps you will let me know which will be the best.

With best respects believe me Dear Sir,
Your most truly obliged,
Charles Heath

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Saturday 27 March 1841
Atlas

Cambridge - March 26
The following are the names of the Inceptors to the degree of Master of Arts at the congregation held yesterday:-

Fellows of St.John's; Jos.Edleston, John Alex. Frere, Duncan F. Gregory, and Dunbar Isidore Heath. 

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Friday 2 April 1841
Lincolnshire Chronicle
University Intelligence

The following are the names of the Inceptors to the degree of Master of Arts at the congregation held yesterday:

W.H.Gullemard, Fellow of Pembroke; M.Obrien, Caius; Wm.Marsh, Trinity Hall; J.G.Mould, Fellow of Corpus Christi; J.Townson, R.Potter, Fellow of Queen's; T.H.Naylor, Queen's; S.Blackwall, Fellow of St.John's; N.M.Manley, Fellow of St.John's; H.Foster, St.John's; J.Edleston, J.A.Frere, D.F.Gregory, D.I.Heath, Fellows of Trinity; G.T.Kingdom, T.A.Walmesley, Trinity, J.Woolley, Emmanuel.

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10 May 1841
Charles Heath, 6 Seymour Place, London to Dawson Turner

My Dear Sir,
I am happy to inform you that at last my affairs are arranged in a manner quite satisfactory. I am to go on under Trustees, publish the Keepsake, Book of Beauty, and Picturesque Annual and some other works. Besides all the back plans in Numbers, and I feel confident if things improve at all that in the three years I shall be able to liquidate the greater part of all I own. It is my intention independent of all these publications to devote my own time to some Large plates in line, probably from the Old Masters.

I should not have troubled you with this but you told me you would like to know how I went on. I have met with the greatest kindness from almost everyone but more particularly from my principal Creditor Messrs.Longman & Co. and I am still on the best and most friendly terms with them all.

For all your kindness up to the present moment I beg to return you my most sincere thanks and the best wishes for yourself and Family believe me Dear Sir,
Yours most gratefully,
Charles Heath

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7 July 1841 -

Anne Heath to Leopold G. Heath (Anne laid up) 

Letter to Leopold
From - Kitlands,

My dearest Leo,

I condole with you that the Admiralty have been so unfeeling to your friend Malone! No notice taken, that there were two so near equal in merit! Even that would have softened the disappointment somewhat.

What a pity that Mrs Marriott and you did not know each on board the steamer, it might have been a great pleasure to her to talk with you. She is a good woman, and has been sorely tried by affliction, in every way, but is always, not only resigned, but cheerful under her trouble....

I like the description of your Ward Room punting exceedingly, it must look warmer and richer than the White and Gold, though perhaps on the station you expect to go, that is not a consideration. 

Our Painter came yesterday, but only to make an estimate, after surveying the marked wood work. I enjoyed the letters (Story, Henry?) brought to my beside yesterday morning from Dunbar and you. Dunbar tells me he saw a "Nigger' with a pair of Moustachios!!!

He says also, "I have got myself a nice (contehane?) cape for 25/ and other smaller necessities, for my comfort in Wales, as for instance, a pair of Slippers. And one hundred envelopes, to write to you in!" He might have added 100 stamps, for he wrote me one letter without paying it which cost me 2d.

He wrote me another by the same post, to tell me his blunder, and that he sent me another (pennorth?) to make up for the 2d paid for the other!!!!!!!

Gina Bethune says she addresses her Brother Captain C.M.D. B.M.S. C.B. !!!!!!!!

(Admiral Charles Ramsay Drinkwater Bethune 1802-1884)

How troublesome it will be, if ever you attain such dignity!

Now deary, I will say Adieu for it is not quite comfortable writing on my back. I continue the same. 

God bless my dearest Leo. I miss you all on the pretty lawn before my window.

Dear Mimmie went out yesterday after dinner, and collected all her live stock, who all did their possible to represent the happy party who are now so far apart! 
Your affectionate Mother,
Anne Heath.

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12. - 28 July 1841 -

Anne Heath to Leopold - (blank.)

My dearest Leo,

You must be longing to hear from me, but every day we have been expecting to hear from Sir J. Pechell, and every day brings the same tantalising accounts that "he is out of town and Mr Christie has not heard from him.' 

Your penny plot arrived from Thorncroft this morning. Emma has made (trio?) and desire me to choose for you, saying - one will fade. I should choose the colored one. I, however, shall send you both, and I think you had better give the one you reject to Captain Forbes to keep his pennys in. If you do not like it do what you can return it. 

We come here for further advice for me, and it seems likely that we must remain some time longer. Emma was to be kept for me a fortnight at Thorncroft, but now I must apply to the Cazelets to take her, and the Bethunes are going to disperse. The Colonel. and John to Balfour, next Monday. Mrs B. and the girls to Malvern. 

I saw nice Mr Hope's marriage in the paper last Friday at St.George's, Hanover Square. Is poor Marriott still delirious? or in what does the betterness consist? 

I have a letter from John at last. I find he sent Mary T his Photographs. She screamed with shock when she saw it. Miss Hallam told us this.  - (I by?) John - no doubt it was the best of the two, and we thought yours a good one.

I am weak dear child, and cannot write long. God bless you. 
Your ever affectionate Mother,
Anne Heath 

Gina sent me your note to her to read, but desired it should go back, as she meant to keep it. 
The Col. said it was a very sensible letter.  
 

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Letter from Anne Raymond Heath to her son Leopold

Chancery Lane
August 4th 1841

My Dearest Leo,
I fear yesterday’s letter from Douglas would be rather a shock to you, as I suppose that accord from the Admiralty (viz. Mr Christie’s) means, that you will not be Sir C. Adams’ Gunnery Lieutenant.  

(Admiral Sir Charles Adams 1780-1853)

Well, it is lucky you have no particular disagreables in your present situation; if you are to be disappointed.  I am very glad that Mrs Marriott had such a fair hope of her son’s recovery, and that you have had it in your power as well as in your kindly nature, to shew her and her daughter some attention.

We are a jolly party here now.  The Bethunes were all going to disperse last Monday; consequently, we were obliged to send for Emma, and now we have got her, she seems to be happy and makes such life and gaiety in our sober coterie that I believe we shall not separate again.  

She says “Oh, Mamma, don’t send me away again, I will sleep under a bed, or any where, rather than leave you.”  

Your Father sent for a carpenter, and for 10 shillings has contrived her, what Honey calls, “a noice little boax.” I suppose she was thinking of our Horses new stable.  

Which on the subject of Osses Ma desires me to introduce the following, Bell, (the Bethunse coachman) lamenting the death of a favourite carriage horse, said to Gina – “Well ma’am, our comfort is, that os, as’nt died in debt!!  He’s paid for himself over, and over again” !!!  

We are highly amused at your Hen & Pig Story.  Should you like a packet of Dunbar’s Welch letters.  You need not out of compliment, unless you really wish it.  

As to myself dear Leopold, I can not say much. I believe it is very doubtful, if I shall ever be able to walk again, more than from bed to sofa.  My Doctor says, my general health is good, and that I have a good constitution, but it . . . 

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Letter from Anne Raymond Heath to her son Leopold

Chancery Lane

August 19th 1841

My dearest Leo,
Your sad news of the morning to Douglas, is a blow so unexpected, and so regretted by me, that I own I am quite put out.  All that have left you, I have regretted, but Captain F was my strong hold, and I looked to his friendship, to make up to you, for every other disagreeable, or annoyance.  

You are a wise man, Leo, and as we cannot help ourselves in this matter, we must hope that his successor, may be a good Officer and a just man, though of course you are not likely to meet with the same friendship in a stranger, that you old Melville gave you.  

Pray give me the earliest account of your new Commander.  

I suppose Douglas told you all about the Doctor drenching me here and after poor Julia had gone off with all her valuables, how she was ordered back to town next day, and that we kept my birthday here.  

Soon after 9 o’clock on the 15th morning, my bedroom door was thrown open and Douglas came first, with a pair of very handsome candlesticks for my bed room, a dark ground with beautiful flowers on them in enamel.  His own present to me.  

Father came next, with a beautiful plate for flowers with a lid to cover it, full of holes, so that the flowers will remain as they are placed.  It is black and gold, with little bouquets strewed over it.  This was by subscription Pa’, Julia, Emma.  

Besides these a Course Pied of knitting (?) from Emma to throw over my feet on the sofa, and one of those Shetland Wool Shawls from Julia.  A pair of welsh wood Jacks from Dunbar and my photograph of you.  

Do not you think I made a very good thing of being ill?  Such useful, as well as ornamental things.  I send you more of dear Danny’s letters.  How he seems to enjoy himself, dear man.  I shall live on the hope of getting another peep at you my Leo, before we part!  

Do not take me quite by surprise as there is great pleasure in the anticipation of pleasure, and I think I am not quite hearty enough to hear a sudden surprise.  God Bless you my dear child! 
Your affectionate Mother.

[Follow on note added at the top]

You may perhaps see me this week, but as Papa can not make up his mind, so neither do I quite make up mine, as I . . .  [don’t?] wish to accompany him.  Do not if you happen to be  . . . expect us till your dear . . . when the last Southampton coach comes on Friday . . . until. 

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From Sir Leopold Heath's letter register:-

13. - 9 September 1841 - Anne Heath to Leopold - who has had an accident.

Gloucester Road, Hyde Park Gardens.
9 September 1841

My dearest Leo,

Your nice letter received this morning was such a treat, deary. I am glad you have hurt your mast, as it gives one an opportunity of forwarding John's letters, which are exceedingly interesting. Pray send them back before you sail, if you have time to read them - but direct to me, Chancery Lane as your Aunt has written to say she is coming back here, early next week. 

I am going on well, I sincerely believe; for I certainly can hear bear more moving about and I think am getting more of my own color again. 

The Doctor is the most sanguine encouraging man, and always pronounces me better, see every thing in Sun shine - but even I, who am perhaps rather inclined to see things in Shade do feel that I am doing well. 
Douglas is going to spend a fortnight with Spedding in Cumberland - He goes on Saturday - As he was off from here very early this morning, he will not see your letter, till after this goes to Post. 

We are so sorry to hear of (Hindy's?) folly!! 

I hope you have received my three last Adieus -  

Directed to Devonport - Your Father prognosticates that this accident to yours  - - - will prevent you sailing altogether! I shall be sorry I think for you. I should have liked you going on the Mediterranean Station. The (only?) or many ships must be recalled, that yours will now be detained.  

Well - you will write again, I am sure - in the mean time farewell! 

Your ever affectionate mother
Anne Heath
 

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From Sir Leopold Heath's letter register:-

14 - 14 September 1841 - Anne Heath to Leopold. (blank)

Letter 
14 September 1841

My dear Leo,

There is such a nice letter come from Douglas, that I shall send it you in hopes of getting it back for Dunbar. Your 'Story of the Nose," afforded great amusement to all the party here, and I have forwarded it, to Douglas and Spedding who both enjoy a little fun in their quiet way.

I hope you discovered the merits of the Frenchman's direction,to Mons Converse, and how Mr.Bacon's title of Esqre was turned into Bacon Square. -

 
What lovely weather to gather in the rest of our Harvest, we may be truly thankful for it. Our merry Doctor still pronounces me better - so in time I hope I may expect to be something more. I almost feel alarmed at daring to hope! 

Pray tell me more about the Ladies, and all the people . Are you comfortable with the whole party. How do the Admiral, and Capt. F. get on. 

Thos Moores you met, are relations of Lady Moore's. I do not know them, but know (who?)  they are. 
They tell me they have nothing to say, but their love to you. So my dear child, I will again say Adieu! 
God bless and prosper you. Your ever affectionate Mother,
Anne Heath. 

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From Sir Leopold Heath's letter register:-

15. - 4 August 1841 - ditto

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From Sir Leopold Heath's letter register:-

16. - 4 October 1841 - ditto

17. - 5 October  1841 - Sergt Heath to Leopold on departure for Mediterranean
File 0897

4 October 1841
To - Lieut. L.G.Heath R.N.
from - 11 Grafton Street, 

My dearest Leopold,

I have been unable to write, or you should not have been so long my Leo, without letters. I am very so - so - but cannot let you sail without my Blessing, and another F. u . 00 .

Dunbar is gone a charming trip with one of his Pupils to Ireland, and is not expected here till next Thursday when he will remain with us till the 20th. So you have not Ladies enough, and want Mrs. P.- to crowd you still more?

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9 November 1841
Charles Heath to Dawson Turner

My Dear Sir,
I hope you have receive the Books I requested Messrs.Longman & Co. to send you. I have now the pleasure of presenting you with the Proofs of the tree Annuals and I hope you will approve them. I have the pleasure of telling you that all my affairs are going on very satisfactory and with best respects to yourself and Family I remain,
My Dear Sir,

Your most truly obliged,
Charles Heath

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Saturday 13 November 1841
John Bull

Under the Superintendence of Mr.Charles Heath,
This day, elegantly bound, super-royal 8vo. 11.1s.; India Proofs, 21.12s.6d -
Book of Beauty for 1842. Edited by the Countess of Blessington, With Portraits of -
Her Majesty the Queen
Princess of Capua
Lady Grey Egerton
Marchioness of Hastings
Lady Sidney
Hon. Miss Forrester.
Mrs.Desnnistowne and Child.
Mrs.Rose and Child.
Mrs.Mountjoy Martyn
Miss Bligh
Lady Vivian and Child
After Chalon, Grant, Hayter, Fisher, Drummond, Corbaux, &c.
London: Longman, Brown and Co.

Sunday 14 November 1841
Under the Superintendence of Mr.Charles Heath
This day, elegantly bound in crimson silk, Super-royal 8vo. 11.1s. India Proofs, 2/.12s. 6d.

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The Keepsake for 1842

Edited by the Countess of Blessington. With Embellishments by Cox, E.Corbould, Keeling, Poole, Creswick, F.Stone, Liverage, Roberts, G.Cattermole, Drummond.

List of Contributors.

Mrs.Fairlie
Miss Worthington
Countess of Blessington
Miss Theodosia Garrow
The Lady E. Stuart Wortley
Marchioness of Hastings
Lady Wyatt
The Lady Stepney
Miss Power
Miss Abdy
Mrs.Cornwall Baron Wilson
The Baroness de Calabrilla
Mrs.Torre Holme
Mrs.Roper
G.P.R.James Esq.
John Kenyon Esq.
E.Simmons Esq.
Arthur Hume Plunkett Esq.
Alexander Cochrane Esq.
Lord John Manners
John Heneage Jesse Esq.
Lord Leigh
Walter Savage Landor Esq.
W.Harrison Ainsworth Esq.
Sir John Hanmer Bart.
Sir E.Lytton Bulwer
Lord William Lennox
Edward Howard Esq.
Tyrone Power Esq.
Author of "Miserrimus"
Barry Cornwall
R.Bernal Esq.
Hon.Grantley F.Berkeley
H.F.Chorley Esq.
Captain Marryat
R.M.Milman Esq.
Lord Gardner

London: Longman, Brown, and Co.

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Sunday 14 November 1841
Naval and Military Gazette

Those gay and glittering flowers of literature, the Annuals, are all coming into bloom at once as the winter sets in, thus kindly reversing the order of ordinary nature, and setting times and seasons at defiance. A whole flush of them is now before us, dazzling us with their gorgeous colours, and perplexing our critical sense with the over-much sweetness.

The Flora of the day is as usual Lady Blessington, and to her and her excellent coadjutor, Mr.Charles Heath, we must first pay our respects.

The Keepsake - presents, as heretofore, it usual array of aristocratic names, amidst which the fair Editress herself shines conspicuously. There is nobody who possesses such off-hand skill as Lady Blessington, in directing her gay thoughts and graceful images "in the way they should go." Put a pleasant object before her, of art, or external nature, or of human life, and straightway she turns it into poetry, for the benefit of those who, perchance, can see in it character.

This is a very happy faculty, and most happily does this Lady use and apply it. Her own pieces in this beautiful volume are in fact at least as attractive as others it includes, - how be it some of them are much greater names in literature - such as Sir E.Bulwer, Mr.Landor, Mr.James, Barry Corwall, &c. &c.

The plates of this volume of course "divide the crown" of merit and attraction with the literature; but we can hardly think that they take the greater portion of it. They are thirteen in number, and those which appertain to landscape and external nature, will probably please the best, in particular the view of the Hudson, by Creswick.

The volume presents us, on the present occasion, with a new feature, in the form of several sketches in Aerography, by Schonberg, which will attract, as they say, much attention.

We must next, for variety sake, turn to -

The Picturesque Annual -
a work which has hitherto been among our chief favourites of the annual class, and which this year offers us the unusual attraction of Mrs.Gore's name as Editress. Its subjects are confined to the public monuments (as our neighbours call them) of Paris, which are delineated both in the regular form and as vignettes, the latter of which are most exquisitely got up. To enter into details on a subject so well known as the public buildings of Paris would be superfluous: suffice it to say that the book forms by many degrees the most graceful and comprehensive guide to the world. In fact, to drive round that city of sights with this book by one's side on the carriage seat, and consult it at every stop, is the next best thing to having its place occupied by the most gay and agreeable of writers and talkers, its accomplished Editress.

The Book of Beauty -
is the only other annual we can notice this week, and that we must despatch briefly, because in fact whatever is applicable to its fair companion and pendant, "The Keepsake" is equally true of it: the only qualification being that all its plates are portraits of real persons. It has the same Editress, Lady Blessington, the same superintendent of its artistical department, Mr.Charles Heath, and the same ("with a difference") list of contributors. Moreover it has so uniform a degree of merit and attraction in its various features both of art and of literature, that it were really invidious to point out particular examples, unless our limits admitted of copious extract, instead (alas!) of none at all.

So far as we can at present judge, the three splendid volumes we have noticed above seem likely, as they have hitherto done, to divide the meed of the public applause and success pretty equally between them. Shout others, however, reach us that put forth higher claims (which we can scarcely hope), they shall receive their due reward at our hands.

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Friday 19 November 1841
Morning Post

For the Drawing Room Table
Now ready, splendidly bound in Morocco,31s.6d., or with the plates highly coloured, after the original drawings, 3/.,
The Waverley Gallery

Portraits of the principal Female Characters in the Novels and Tales of Scott, in thiry-six large and highly-finished Plates, engraved under the direction of Mr.Charles Heath, from drawings by eminent artists.

Tilt and Bogue, Fleet street; of whom may be had. - Heath's Shakespeare Gallery - Forty-five beautiful Plates, with illustrative Extracts. 4to., Morocco elegant, 42s." with Coloured Plates 3/.13s. 6d.

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Saturday 20 November 1841
Manchester Times

Prints Published by Messrs.Colnaghi and Puckle
No.23 Cockspur Street, London

Subject - Size - Price - -
Death of Nelson - containing Portraits of the officers, &c. on board the Victory. Painted by West; engraved by James Heath - 20 x 25ins - £1.1.0

Girl at the Well. Companion to 'Sunday Moring,' by the same artists, Painted by R.Westall R.A.; engraved by Charles Heath - 15 x 11ins - £0.7.6

Sunday Morning - Companion to the 'Girl at the Well.' Painted by Sharp; engraved by Charles Heath - 15 x 11ins - £0.7.6

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Sunday 28 November 1841
Satirist - or Censor of the Times

Literature

Heath's Annuals for 1842
The Keepsake. Edited by the Countess of Blessington
The Book of Beauty. Edited by the Countess of Blessington
Heath's Picturesque Annual; a History and Description of Paris. By Mrs.Gore. Longman and Co.
Once more we have to welcome the "Annuals" of Mr.Charles Heath, which, for 1842,as in bygone years, present a most attractive blending of poetry, fiction and art. The talent of various kinds displayed in these beautiful works has produced marvels of excellence, at least what would have been deemed so not a very long time ago; and both letter-press and embellishments fully sustain, if they do not increase, the high reputation of the works already published under the same literary and artistic superintendence.

The Keepsake has been confided to the able editorship of Lady Blessington, and we need hardly say that its literary attraction vies with its artistic excellence. Not that the reader will not suspect sometimes that the latter is the more undoubtedly meritorious of the two; for of the poetry given in this volume it may be especially affirmed, that amid the glitter of words and showiness of expression it is not easy to fix the precise degree of desert. The art of "poetising" has indeed been carried to so much perfection, and spurious affectation assumes so well the form of real feeling, that the task of discerning the sterling from the counterfeit is more easily appreciated. - - -continues

The illustrations, commencing with Prince Albert, drawn by Drummond are of that high standard (can it be well exceeded?) by which the previous productions of Messrs.Heath compel us to test the results of their present efforts. Their taste has provided a rich treat, in which the talents of the different artists employed are very advantageously displayed. The "View on the Hudson" cannot be surpassed for beauty, nor "The Church of St.Pierre at Cayenne," for finished minuteness yet picturesque effect. We must enumerate every plate, however, to include all the beauties achieved by the pencil and the graver. The vignettes at the commencement of each tale are the best speimens of acrography we have seen, yet not greatly to our taste, on the whole.

The Book of Beauty, edited also by Lady Blessington, is graced by twelve portraits, beginning with her Majesty; each intended, doubtless, to represent "beauty" of some kind or other, and certainly, as far as plates go, presenting it to the gaze of the reader. We surmise that more difference of opinion exists about the beauty of the originals than their portraits - so skilled are the artists in rendering the latter agreeable to those for whom they were designed. Look, for instance, at the portrait of the Queen here given, which is spiritualised into a beauty and expression which her features do not possess, preserving, at the same time, a likeness, if not the likeness of royalty. The portrait, however, is not much more flattering than the lines upon it, by Miss Theodosia Garrow. The Princess of Capua comes next, looking by several inches more a Queen than her Majesty. - - - - continues - - - -long article

The last of these volumes, The Picturesque Annual, Paris in 1841, is in some respects the most desirable volume of the three. Mrs.Gore's spirited descriptions of the public buildings, and, incidentally, the habits and manners of Paris as existing under what she calls "the auspicious reign of Louis Phillipe," besides instructing and delighting the reader, are of more enduring value than the fugitive contents of an annual. If taking a manifest pleasure in her subject be any proof of capability to do it justice, Mrs.Gore is the fittest person for the task, for her introductory chapter shows how much she prefers the gaiety of the pleasure seeking Parisians to the dullness of the "smoke-dried or fog-saturated denizens of London." As a picture of the "externals" of Paris, and the superficies of Parisian society, this work is entitled to very high praise; while the style of its production, and the fine plates from the drawings of Mr.Allom, increase most materially its value and attraction. It is difficult to do justice to the exquisite finish of the engravings, twenty-one in numbers, which represent the most remarkable buildings and objects to be seen in Paris. - - -continues - - - long article.

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30 November 1841
Letter from Charles Heath.

C.Heath - Engraver.

My dear Sir,
If you could send me an admission for two for the Adelphi I shall be greatly obliged. Saturday is the night I wish it for.

Yours very truly,
C.Heath.

I have sent a Book of English Pearls to the Herald and proofs of all the Annuals. I hope they will notice them

This is a charming house, but I cannot write more!
God Bless and prosper you dear Leo!

Your ever affectionate Mother,
Anne Heath

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1842

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