One notes there is a large English population from Bird's Custard Island (a favorite Edwardian endearment) in New York and they all seem to be Mountbatten-y. Or pretend to be.

See Quentin Bell's daughter has written a book........he was so much after the fact and now this is after after the fact..and guess it will go on forever. Symposia was the first person to take him and his wife Anne to visit the Lake District. They had never been to the far northwest and we showed him Brantwood, Ruskin's last home where he ran into a cousin (tout le monde is interrelated there).

If anyone reads this and comes across a book on Tintoretto with a Ruskin/Brantwood bookplate and copious notes from the author please let us know. We bought it in Kendal and it was stolen in Chicago.

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