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FOURTEEN WALL STREET NEW YORK October 14, 1914. Dear Mr. Frick:

                   Only yesterday was I able to get from Knoedler such data

as they had concerning the two large Turners. These data I have been able to supplement in some important particulars; but if you acquire either of these paintings, it will be necessary to go through the entire Turner bibliography - some twenty or twenty-five volumes - to complete the record.

                   These paintings were both in the James Wadmore collection.

Wadmore was a land surveyor, born in 1782, with a penchant for collecting artistic objects. In 1815 he was enabled to gratify his taste through the inheritance of a fortune from his uncle, and took up his residence at 40 Chapel Street, Marleybone. Here had a collection of modern English artists - Turner, Wilkie, Webster, and others, also a few old masters. He passed the later years of his life at Upper Clapton, where he died on December 24, 1853. His pictures were sold the following year; they numbered 186 and included examples of Ruysdael, Dow, Carracci, and Vincent's masterpiece "Greenwich Hospital." Also "Three important Turners - 'Cologne,' 'Dieppe Harbour' and 'The Guardship on the Nore' - which realized over 5,000 Guineas." This information is taken from the Gentleman's Magazine for 1854.

                   They were evidently bought by John Naylor, J. P., of 

Leighton Hall, and appear to have remained in his possession until his death in 1906. Bryan lists them as being in the possession of Mrs. Naylor after this date. John Naylor was Lord of the Manor of Leighton, Welshpool, Montgomeryshire. [end of page]