15 NOVEMBER 1963, Page 16

THE BATTLE OF THE NILE

SIR,-1 am anxious to trace the whereabouts of an eighteenth-century sketchbook containing drawings of the Battle of the Nile, and should be grateful for a little space in the Spectator to advertise this, in case one of your readers should be able to help,

The book was in the hands of Colonel Walter Fawkes of Farnley about 1800, later with William Anderson, the marine painter, and in 1914 in the collection of another painter. Mr. Louis Paul, of

Parkstone, Dorset. JOHN GAGE University of London, Courtauld Institute of Art, 20 Portman Square, WI