The Story of Cornwallis's Buckles law's story over sixty-three years before. He replied that he would be very greatly interested in seeing them for he had never seen them, that he had drawn them from description only^. He told me he was a boy at the time, just beginning, and that this was one of his first jobs. I asked Mr. Edwards if he knew how the story came to the attention of his mother-in-law. He told me that she was the daughter of Judge Charles Rowland of Wilmington, Delaware, and the wife of the Civil War General John C. Cox, and that she knew all of the old Philadelphia families and wrote many stories of the Revolution. It was clear then that Anne Johns Cox had got the story and permission to publish it from an early member of the family. Now, after seventy-four years, the name of the author of the first published story on Cornwallis's buckles" is for the first time published here for a permanent record. Needless to say I spent a very interesting afternoon with this eminent artist. At the conclusion of the discussion of our mutual interest in the subject of Cornwallis's buckles, Mr. Edwards told me a great deal about his early life and showed me copies of his books and the honor decorations bestowed upon him, one of the most beautiful of which was the decoration of Belgium "set with forty-two diamonds, made by the King's jeweller." He also showed me many of his paintings, including his first portrait, that of his mother in her widow's weeds. Before leaving Mr. Edwards that Sunday afternoon, I asked him if he would write for me his definition of art which he had spoken earlier in conversation. He picked up a card from a table near by, borrowed my pencil, and wrote: «i/f)f /$ (l ItfwOT ^-ihC M , 'St. Nicholas, February 1882, 296. 188