LIDDON

(Reginald Stuart, 1832-1895, Archaeologist, Numismatist and Orientalist) saying that it would be “a great honour to be placed on the Committee of the Egypt Exploration Fund though my knowledge of Egyptian Antiquities is too entirely of a second hand and superficial kind to deserve any such distinction. but I leave myself in your hands, and it would be a real pleasure to me to think that by joining the committee I could help so useful an enterprise. Certainly I shall try to remember you as well as I can in your great anxiety. The world is a difficult world without one’s mother. Every one who has experienced the loss of a mother must feel this, if I may judge by my own case; and I trust that a life so precious to you may yet be continued and that in any case she and you may have the happiness of conforming to the Will of God...”, he ends by saying that he has been sent to Brighton by his doctor as he has been unwell, 4 sides 8vo., Brighton, 7th December