could never, fix on a price, he waried as the sale approached completion.

I induced Mr Wallace the keeper of the Art Galleries of the Corporation of Birmingham to come to town to see the collection - especially the Bristol and Somersetshire, containing so many drawings of William Miller. But at the last although most anxious to sell, he could not be induced to name a price. For all this trouble Mr Bulwer always led me to believe I should be however slightly rewarded.

Mr Bulwer had for many years expressed a wish to have a portrait of himself in oil. I never said anything serious about trusting a time might arrive when I could paint and give it him.

One afternoon having been terribly misled by a Friend, and wanting Fifty pounds I went to Mr Bulwer, and made an offer to paint his portrait for £150. £50 to be paid to me then, and £10 each week till the picture was completed. To my surprise he told me he could not afford it, that

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