I enjoyed myself at Panshanger very much--did I write to tell you who our party was? In case I did not, it was as follows: Henry Greville, Lord and Lady Katherine Valletort, Lord and Lady Spencer, Mrs. Leslie, Lord Listowel, Mr. Clare Vyner, and Mr. E. Lascelles--all young people; so that it was very pleasant. There are, as you know, most beautiful pictures at Panshanger--a magnificent Vandyke, a splendid Rembrandt, Correggio, Andrea del Sarto, and two beautiful Raphaels. G. Smith sent me a kind note and a cheque to fill up for drawing in the _Cornhill_ ("Ariadne"). I put ten guineas, telling him that I could not, as a general rule, interrupt my work for that sum, but that I would not take more because the cut had turned out so extremely bad. I am going to expend the money, adding a few pounds, on a cup, to be shot for in the spring by our Rifle Corps. Arthur Lewis has already given one, and another of our men has promised a second prize to go with my cup. My picture will be _finished_ by the time I go to Bath. My eye is too accustomed to it to know whether it is successful; I shall know better when I return from the country. I have no news, so good-bye, dear Mammy. Best love to all.--From your very affectionate boy, FRED. I go to Windsor (to Miss Thackeray) for two days next week; that also is an old invitation; I have no time for it, but must go. I keep my parties going tolerably, but shall give that up with a few exceptions when I settle here; it makes work impossible from unavoidably late hours, and produces a general deterioration of mind and body, mostly the former; the Hollands I shall always keep up--they are most kind; I dine there frequently and meet interesting and remarkable people. Very remarkable drawings in pencil on other lines followed the celebrated "Lemon Tree"--surpassing in dramatic truth of expression any Leighton had executed since the early design he drew of the "Plague in Florence in 1850."[26] [Illustration: SKETCH FOR "MICHAEL ANGELO NURSING HIS DYING SERVANT." 1862 Leighton House Collection]