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Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854

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Sir Christopher Wren and the young Carver (Vol. viii., p. 340.).—If your correspondent A. H. has not already appropriated the anecdote here alluded to, I think I can confidently refer him to any biographical notice of Grindling Gibbons—to whom the story of the "Sow and Pigs" relates. Gibbons was recommended to Sir Christopher by Evelyn, I think; but not having "made a note of it," I am not sure that it is to be found in his Diary.[4] If there be any monograph Life of Gibbons, it can scarcely fail to be found there.

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