H. T. ELLACOMBE. Clyst St. George. _St. George Family Pictures._--In Gough's _Sepulchral Monuments_, vol. iii. p. 77., it is mentioned, with reference to the estate of Hatley St. George, in county of Cambridge, that, at the sale of the house in 1782, "The family pictures were removed to Mr. Pearce's house at Cople, Bedford." Can any one tell me if the family pictures here spoken of were those of the St. George family (which inhabited the house for six hundred years); and if so, what has become of them? R. A. S. O. Ceylon, June 11, 1853. _Caley (John), "Ecclesiastical Survey of the Possessions, &c. of the Bishop of St. David's," 8vo. 1812._--The above is said, in a bookseller's catalogue, to be privately printed. It is unknown to the bishop of the diocese and Mr. Black. Can any of your readers give any information about it? JOHN MARTIN. Froxfield. _Adamson's "Lusitania Illustrata."_--Is there any prospect of Mr. Adamson continuing his _Lusitania Illustrata_? Could that accomplished Portuguese student kindly inform me if there is any better insight into Portuguese literature than that contained in Bouterweck's _Geschichte der Poesie und Beredsamkeit_? W. M. M. _Blotting-paper._--When did blotting-paper first come into use. Carlyle, in his _Life of Cromwell_, twice repeats that it was not known in those days. Is not this a mistake? I have a piece which I am able to refer to 1670. SPERIEND. _Poetical Versions of the Fragments in Athenaeus._--Can any of your correspondents inform me of the locus of any of these, in addition to _Blackwood_, xxxvi., and _Fraser's Magazine_? P. J. F. GANTILLON, B.A. * * * * * Replies. ROBERT DRURY. (Vol. v., p. 533.; Vol. vii., p. 485.) Under the conviction that Robert Drury was a real character, and his _Madagascar_ a true narrative of his shipwreck, sufferings, and captivity, I crave your permission to give a few additional reasons why I think he should be discharged from the fictitious, and admitted into the catalogue of real and _bona fide_ English travellers.