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of Alice Nelson (Mrs. Rolfe) are still extant among her descendants.
Lady Hamilton's ring is known to have been made into a clasp, but was restored to its original use when bestowed by her upon her god-daughter, Emma Horatia, the firstborn child of Sir William and Lady Bolton. The story of the double name is told in the family letters passing between the Mediterranean and Norfolk in 1803-4. At that time Lord Nelson, in a letter written from the Victory to Lady Hamilton, remarked in regard to the expected infant, to whom he had promised to be sponsor: "Call it what you like; if a girl—Emma."
Sir William Bolton, also in the Mediterranean, was commanding the Childers sloop; and, on his coming on board the Victory, the Admiral "had the pleasure of announcing to him the birth of his little girl," and telling "Sir Billy" that he had been "made a papa." In after years Emma Horatia Bolton became the wife of Dr. Francken Foley of Brancaster, and, dying a childless widow in 1869, left her ring to a Girdlestone cousin.
But the one person, of all others, that the Admiral himself would have desired to possess this memorial never received one, and was left to purchase it by accident in years to come in an old curiosity shop.
A memorial ring was shown at the Whitehall exhibition of relics at the Nelson centenary, whose owner was named Turnbull; in 'N. & Q.' for 17 June, 1876 (5 S. v. 486), Mr. Maurice Lenihan of Limerick described a specimen in his possession (see also 10 S. iv. 421); and I observe another in the printed catalogue of Mr. F. A. Crisp's 'Mourning Rings.' I have also heard of one in the custody of a descendant of a naval friend of Lord Nelson's, who possibly purchased it in later years.
Memorial Ring.
"Sancte Jaco a Compostel" (11 S. xii. 279, 309).—I am much obliged to Mr. Edward S. Dodgson for his assistance. I carefully copied the doggerel from the Itinerary of William Wey (printed for the Roxburghe Club, 1857, from the MS. [565] in the Bodleian). Wey very possibly took down the words as he heard them sung. He himself, though a B.D. and Fellow of the Royal College of St. Mary and St. Nicholas at Eton, was, no doubt, unfamiliar with Gallego. His account of his pilgrimage to Compostella was written in Latin.
Anastatic Printing (11 S. xii. 359).—Perhaps the Rev. J. B. McGovern would be interested in the work of "The Ilam Anastatic Drawing Society." It was flourishing in 1861-3, and published many illustrations in its transactions, which were printed at Ashbourne. I have before me a few excellent specimens of the process e.g., Plate xxviii., "Gate House and Part of Old Palace, Buckden, Hunts. Robert W. Edis delt. et anast. Sept. 1862"; Plate xxix., "East Window of South Aisle and Turret N.W. Angle of Chancel. J. W. Oddie, sketched August, 1861"; Plate xxx., "North Doorway, Spaldwick, Hunts. Robert W. Edis del. et anas. Sept. 1862"; "Thurning Church, Huntingdonshire. H. Meynell, 1863."
Although this reply does not explain the process of printing, I suggest that full details may possibly be obtained from any surviving member. Col. Robert W. Edis, C.B., F.S.A., born at Huntingdon, and an architect since 1862, D.L. and J.P. for Norfolk, I hope still enjoys good health. Herbert E. Norris.
The following from 'The New Popular
Encyclopædia' (1907) contains a very fair
account in a concise form:—
"Anastatic Printing, derived from a Greek adjective signifying resuscitation; a process by which the perfect facsimile of a page of type or an engraving, old or new, can be reproduced and printed in the manner of a lithograph or page of letterpress. The print or page to be transferred is dipped in diluted nitric acid, and, while retaining a portion of the moisture, is laid face downwards on a polished zinc plate and passed through a roller-press. The zinc is immediately corroded by the acid contained in the paper, excepting on those parts occupied by the ink of the type or engraving. The ink while rejecting the acid is loosened by it, and deposits a thin film on the zinc, thus protecting it from the action of the acid. The result is that those parts are left slightly raised in relief, and the plate being then washed with a weak solution of gum, and otherwise treated like a lithograph, the raised parts being greasy, readily receive ink from the roller, and give off a facsimile impression of the original.'
In 'Knight's Cyclopædia of the Industry of All Nations' (1851) there will be found an excellent paper upon this subject. The article would be far too long for quotation here; but I would like to note a few lines from the opening remarks:—
"Early in the month of November, 1841, the proprietors of The Athænaum received, from a correspondent at Berlin, a reprint of four pages of the number of that journal which had been published in London only on September 25th. The copy was so perfect a facsimile that, had it not come to hand under peculiar circumstances, it would have been taken for two leaves out of a sheet actually printed
