later embossed envelopes and for the first Ten Pence and One Shilling embossed stamps are surprisingly rare--indeed, the authors of "Wright and Creeke" had only seen three-quarters of a mill-sheet at the time of writing their book. Mr. Lewis Evans has a number of the original samples, and has been good enough to allow me to prepare a complete transcript of the Dickinson papers, so far as they relate to postal matters, and I have included _facsimiles_ of Ormond Hill's pattern instructions for the paper for the Ten Pence and Shilling adhesives in "Great Britain: Embossed Adhesive Stamps." These are items which form part of the life-history of the stamps or impressed stationery to which they relate, and are properly included with the stamp collection. But, except in the _facsimile_ state, it will be obvious that but few can enrich their collections with items of so unique a character as Ormond Hill's carefully measured and ruled patterns and the autograph letters with instructions from Rowland Hill. But it is open to each specialist to introduce much individuality into a collection of Great Britain, or some other country, on these and similar lines. [Illustration: THE TWO PENCE, GREAT BRITAIN, ON "DICKINSON" PAPER. The upper block is in red (24 stamps printed in all, of which nine copies are known) and the lower block in blue (16 stamps printed, of which twelve copies are known). The above blocks of six each are in the possession of Mr. Lewis Evans; the pairs cut from the left side of each block were in the collection of the late Mrs. John Evans.] Mention has already been made of the "find" of a quantity of the suggestions submitted to the Treasury in 1839 as a result of the offer of prize-money. These, too, are within the scope of the stamp collection carried out on the thorough historical basis, but then nearly every item being unique designs in pen and ink, in crayon and watercolour, and with manuscript matter, they are not to enrich more than one collection at a time. Yet there may be others of a different kind, each in itself unique, to be had at some future timely frustration of a holocaust of waste-paper. [Illustration: AUTOGRAPH LETTER FROM ROWLAND HILL TO JOHN DICKINSON, THE PAPER-MAKER, ASKING FOR SIX OR EIGHT SHEETS OF THE SILK-THREAD PAPER FOR TRIAL IMPRESSIONS OF THE ADHESIVE STAMPS.] The City Medal of William Wyon is closely associated with the history of our stamps, and used to be represented in my collection by a silver _cliché_, though it has now been replaced by the medal in silver. The medal is accessible to the collector in bronze, silver, or gold, but for most philatelic purposes a _cliché_ showing only the obverse with the Queen's head is more convenient for mounting in the album, in a heavily sunk card, and protected with "glass" paper. [Illustration: ONE OF THE ROUGH PENCIL SKETCHES BY W. MULREADY, R.A., FOR THE ENVELOPE. The "flying" figures are not shown in this sketch.]