"You remember that you kindly furnished me with your prescription for _tic douleureux_ to give to my friend Pulszky. He told me a few days back that he sent it (I think a year ago) to the poor girl at Ventnor who was a horrible sufferer from it, and heard no more of it until this autumn when he was at Ventnor again. He was delighted to find she had been immediately cured by it, had had no returns, was made competent for work, and is in a servant's place. On my naming this, I have two urgent applications for the prescriptions. If you will a second time take the trouble to copy out the prescription I will keep it myself, and give copies to my friends without further coming upon you.... I have ventured to assert that the Nicholson who is so talked of as promoting the ballot in Australia is _not_ your brother Mark. "Do you know, when I saw in the _Illustrated London News_ the face of the late lamented Brigadier Nicholson of the Punjaub, I thought it _very_ like you. Is he possibly a distant relative? "Ever yours heartily, "F. W. Newman, "7 P.V.E." "_20th December_, 1857. This remark of Newman's that he saw a strong likeness in "the face of the late lamented Brigadier Nicholson of the Punjaub" to his friend Dr. Nicholson is one of those arresting suggestions which seem to strike sudden light out of the flints of ancestry which whiten the road of life along which we have come. That there _is_ a distinct likeness in the two faces no one who had seen the portraits in Captain Lionel Trotter's _Life of John Nicholson_, and then looked at that of Dr. John Nicholson in this book, could have had a doubt. But, as it seems to me, there is even more ground for the likelihood of Newman's suggestion, if one tries to trace the lineage and land of the families of Nicholson in years gone by. I quote the following from Captain Trotter's _Life of John Nicholson_:--