Autobiography and memoirs . ns in rebellion will dispensewith the necessity of sending out any more troops, andrelease poor Adelaide from such an ordeal. With kindest remembrances to Lady Stewart, andmany thanks for her kindness, ^j I am, dear Sir James, Yours sincerely, George D. Campbell. * —I have painted the blue-tit, the cole-tit, thelongtailed-tit, the green linnet, and yellow-hammerwith pretty good success. * G. D. Campbell. In 1839, at the age of sixteen, he wrote again toSir James Stewart: My dear Sir James, I have given up drawing landscape, and haveturned my attention more succe
Autobiography and memoirs . ns in rebellion will dispensewith the necessity of sending out any more troops, andrelease poor Adelaide from such an ordeal. With kindest remembrances to Lady Stewart, andmany thanks for her kindness, ^j I am, dear Sir James, Yours sincerely, George D. Campbell. * —I have painted the blue-tit, the cole-tit, thelongtailed-tit, the green linnet, and yellow-hammerwith pretty good success. * G. D. Campbell. In 1839, at the age of sixteen, he wrote again toSir James Stewart: My dear Sir James, I have given up drawing landscape, and haveturned my attention more successfully, and much moreto my taste, to the drawing and painting of do this well I have a great ambition, as ornithologyhas ever been my favourite study, and in this I amglad to think that I am writing to a sympathizer. Ihave really succeeded beyond my expectations in thisway, and hope you will agree with me when you havean opportunity of seeing some specimens of my powers. * Lady Arthur Lennox, cousin to the 1866-1900] THE DUKE AS AN ARTIST 563 Only think of my arrogance when I tell you that Iam contemplating having a lithograph taken of adrawing and painting I have made of a peregrinefalcon, one of those which a gamekeeper near us hastrained to hunt in the old style of falconry! I havetaken a regular ornithological drawing of this mag-nificent bird, having delineated each feather, and withwhat success I hope soon to enable you to judge. The cross-bills have now left us—at least, I havenot seen or heard of any for a long time. I wasamused with your description of the frigate bird, butyou have drawn a deduction from the length of itswings and smallness of its body which I am afraid willnot hold good. You seem to think that its flightmust in consequence be very quick or, to use yourown word, prodigious. Now a birds flight is inthe inverse ratio to the size of its wing in proportionto the weight of its body, as you may see by comparingthe flight of the heron (wh
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