is said to contain the air of Concolinel. It will be some time before I
can execute the work alluded to, and I would prefer to see the Doctor's
work published first. Whichever first appears will most likely
anticipate much that is in the other, for, although Dr. R. says he has
spent "many years" on the subject, the accidental possession of several
MS. volumes has given me such singular advantages, I am unwilling to
surrender my project. I have the music to nearly twenty jigs, and two
have some of the words, which are curious.

R.


_Wife of the Poet Bilderdijk--Schweickhardt the Artist_ (Vol. ii., pp.
309. 349.).--JANUS DOUSA will find a very sufficient account of
Southey's visit to the Dutch poet Bilderdijk, in vol. v. of the _Life
and Correspondence of Southey_, now publishing by his son. To the
special inquiry of JANUS DOUSA I can say nothing, but I would fain ask
who was Katherine Wilhelmina Schweickhardt? I have in my possession a
series of eight etchings of studies of cattle, by H.W. Schweickhardt,
published in 1786, and dedicated to Benjamin West. My father was very
intimate with Schweickhardt, and I think acted in some sort as his
executor. I do not know when be died but it must be thirty years since I
heard my father speak of his friend, who was then deceased, but whether
recently or not I cannot say. I am rather disposed to think the event
was comparatively a remote one: he left a widow. Was Mrs. Bilderdijk his
daughter? The etchings are exceedingly clever and artistical; my copy
has the artist's name in his own handwriting. If I am not mistaken,
Schweickhardt lived, when my father knew him, at Lambeth, then a
picturesque suburb very unlike the "base, common, and popular" region
which it has since become. B.T. Pouncy, another clever artist of that