Notes and Queries, Number 66, February 1, 1851, page 39 by Various Authors
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rom Lord Shaftesbury, the author of the Characteristics, to Le Clerc, in which he gives a biographical sketch of his friend and foster father Mr. Locke.
J. S. B. The two Notes were duly forwarded. Will our correspondent enable us to write to him.
C. W. B. The very interesting little History of Venice in Murray's Family Library was written by the late Rev. E. Smedley.
G. R. M. The brass token in question is a weight for weighing half-guineas; the coinage weights of which were 2 dwt. 16¾ gr., and the current weights 2 dwt. 16 gr.
We have two or three favours to request of our correspondents, and we ask them no less for their sakes than for our own. 1st. That they will be particular in their references, and collate their extracts before sending them to us; for they little know the loss of time and the trouble which a neglect of these trifles occasions us. 2d. That they will forward their separate articles as far as possible on separate papers; for several valuable communications are now standing over, until we can find leisure to separate and arrange for the press the different parts. 3rd. That they will write as legibly as they can.
J. S. (Brighton). Received.
K. R. H. M. The poem, beginning,
"Give Lucinda pearle nor stone,"
written by Thomas Carew, or Carye, was addressed to the celebrated Countess of Carlisle, daughter of Edward Lord Howard of Escrick, and is printed at p. 48. of Tom Davies' edition of Carew's Poems (1772).
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