_Sir Kenelm Digby_ (Vol. vii., p. 85.).--I am not at all convinced of the
accuracy of the statement made by your correspondent VANDYKE, "that Sir
Kenelm Digby is (VANDYKE believes _always_) represented with a sunflower by
his side." There are various prints of Sir Kenelm Digby at the British
Museum, which I have very recently examined, and I can find but one which
bears the device alluded to and which is placed, not "by the side of Sir
Kenelm Digby," but with other allegorical symbols, at the bottom of the
print. Nor do the _Private Memoirs_ (first published in 1827 by the late
Sir Harris Nicolas) contain anything to throw light on the supposed
adoption of this emblem by Sir Kenelm Digby.