[Illustration: A PICTURE-LETTER.
+By Sir Edwin Landseer.+]
_Pictures with Histories._
(_Continued._)
The frontispiece we are enabled to give this month is penned in what
may be termed pictorial hieroglyphics by Sir Edwin Landseer. The letter
was addressed to Charles George Lewis, the celebrated engraver. The
first house represented is Lewis's residence in Charlotte-street,
whilst the final sketch is a very correct drawing of the artist's house
in St. John's Wood-road. It remains just in the same state to-day, and
is occupied by Mr. H. W. B. Davis, R.A. This delightfully original
missive reads--evidently in response to an invitation:--
[Illustration: WOBURN ABBEY. 1826