Note 242 — Chapter XXIX

The following year Sir R. Hill dined at Marlborough House:—“The Prince of Wales,” he wrote, “reminded me of the pleasure he had had, during the previous year, in presenting me with the Albert Medal, on which I told him that he really presented me with an empty box, and explained the cause, viz., that the successive blows required for obtaining high relief of the medal had broken the die before the work was completed. The interval being too short for the engraving of another die, the Council of the Society had judged it better not to delay matters; consequently the presentation took place ‘in dummy.’ The Prince laughed heartily at the story.”—Ed.