[We believe all that is known of Bishop Turner's MS. Life of Nicholas Ferrar is, that it was in the custody of the editor of _The Christian Magazine_ in 1761. Foster the Essayist (_Lectures_, vol. ii. p. 504. edit. 1848) says, "A long and well-written account of Ferrar was drawn up by a Dr. Turner, Bishop of Ely, and left by him in manuscript. It remained in the hands of the persons to whom his papers descended, till it was communicated to the conductors of a miscellany called _The Christian Magazine_, in a volume of which for the year 1761, this curious memoir was lately pointed out to me." Gough, in his _British Topography_, vol. ii. p. 299.*, furnishes a few other particulars:--"The papers of Bishop Turner, in the year 1761, appear to have been in the hands of Dr. Dodd, who printed some of them in _The Christian Magazine_ for that year. In particular the _Life of Mr. Nicholas Ferrar_ was abridged, and published at p. 356. In the introduction the editor says, 'As the _Life_ is rather too long for our pamphlet, even divided, we have taken the liberty to abridge some particulars in the Bishop's account, and now and then to alter a phrase or two in his language, which through length of time is in some places rather become obsolete.' From this passage it will appear that it was published in the worst manner it could be." Our correspondent will find much curious matter respecting the biographies of Nicholas Ferrar in our Second Volume, pp. 119. 407. 444. 485. Among the Addit. MSS. (No. 5540., f. 53.) in the British Museum, is a Letter of Bishop Turner's addressed to Mr. Reading, and read at the trial of Lord Preston, 1691.] _Raleigh's History._--What is the story of Raleigh's burning the second volume of his History? RECNAC. [The story is this:--A few days previously to his death, Raleigh sent for Walter Burre, who printed his History; and asking him how the work had sold, received for answer, "so slowly that it had undone him." Upon which Sir Walter brought from his desk a continuation of the work to his own time, and, throwing it into the fire, said to Burre, "the second volume shall undo no more; this ungrateful world is unworthy of it." (Winstanley's _English Worthies_, p. 256.) There is, however, no satisfactory authority for the truth of this anecdote; and it has been rejected by Arthur Cayley, and his other biographers.] * * * * * Replies. EPITAPHS. (Vol. vii., p. 178.)