SIR,--I have to complain that your Correspondent T. M. rushes into print so incautiously on the subject of his tobacco-pipe. From the accuracy of his quotation, he appears to have had the Society's volume before him, yet he has taken no trouble to arrive at the truth. Mr. Lamb's paper was read three months before the woodcut of the pipe in question appeared; but as the latter was of peculiar form, it was engraved, as well as one or two others that had not been exhibited. All of these were minutely referred to. Thus, in the NOTE RESPECTING THE PLATES, p. iii. there is the following:--"No. 14 [on Plate IV.] is from 'Willis's Current Notes,' for April, 1851; the stem is of bamboo, and the top of the bowl of brass. It was found in taking down an old inn at Fulham in 1836." From a mutilated copy I send you the actual leaf for the use of T. M.;[1] and have to express my sorrow that he does not possess either more patience or more civility, A. HUME, D.C.L. Corresponding Secretary. [1] G. W. _has forwarded it to his Correspondent, and begs to thank the Rev. Dr. Hume for this correction of T. M.'s oversight, and the manner in which an acknowledgment has been made to "Willis's Current Notes," which it gratifies him to find considered worthy of the attention of_ THE HISTORIC SOCIETY OF LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE. THE LATE J. M. W. TURNER, R.A. _G. W. has the honour to acknowledge the receipt of five communications respecting the Sketch of the late Mr. Turner, which appeared with_ J. T. A.'s _letter in the January number of_ "Current Notes," (p. 1.) _Four of his correspondents are pleased with the Sketch, and one who signs himself_, D. R. _states that he knew Mr. Turner well, and considers it to be, "no caricature, but on the contrary, an excellent likeness_." _However, the following epistle, expresses a different opinion._ Yarm^o. Feb, 2, 1852. SIR,--How very vexing it is that the "rude sketch" favoured by your obliging correspondent, (J. T. A.) was not placed in the hands of some R. A. (before engraved), who was acquainted and well knew that celebrated painter, and from that ("rude sketch") and the knowledge he (R. A.) had of the late Turner, would have favoured us with a more characteristic portrait. Was he not more than four feet in stature? This represented ("Current Notes," January, 1852, p. 1), reminds us of a wooden punchinello more than any thing that ever breathed, and not at all _credible_ to the "Current Notes." All such Notes are highly interesting if properly done. In haste. Yours faithfully, W. THE MARQUIS OF WORCESTER, (_Author of the "Century of Inventions"_).--R. C. particularly thanked for his communication.