Museum are two of his drawings, highly finished in water-colours, being
unquestionably the originals of plates eight and forty-one of De Bry's
Florida. They are about double the size of the engravings. They came in
with the Sloane Collection. There is also in the Manuscript Department
of the British Museum a volume of original drawings relating chiefly to
Florida and Virginia (Sloane N° 5270) manifestly a mixture of Le Moyne's
and White's sketches. They are very valuable. There is also in the
Museum library a printed and manuscript book by Le Moyne, which speaks
for itself and tells its own interesting story. It is in small oblong
quarto and is entitled ' La/ Clef des Champs,/ pour trouuer plusieurs
Ani-/maux, tant Bestes qu'Oyseaux, auec/ plusieurs Fleurs & Fruitz. . .
/ Anno. I586./ ¶ Imprimé aux Blackfriers, pour Jaques/ le Moyne, dit de
Morgues Paintre/'. The book consists of fifty leaves, of which two are
preliminary containing the title and on the reverse and third page a
neat dedication in French ' A Ma-dame Madame/ De Sidney.'/ Signed'
Voftre tres-affectionne,/ JAQVES LE MOINE dit

de/ MORGVES Paintre.'/ This dedication is dated ' Londres/ ce xxvi. de
Mars.'/ On the reverse of the second leaf, also in French, is ' ¶ A Elle
Mesme,/ Sonet' with the initials I.L.M.

Then follow forty-eight leaves with two woodcuts coloured by hand on the
recto of each leaf, reverse blank. These ninety-six cuts sum up
twenty-four each of beasts, birds, fruits and flowers, with names
printed under each in English, French, German and Latin. Although the
book is dated the 26th of March 1586, it was not entered at Stationers'
Hall until the 31st of July 1587. It there stands under the name of
James Le Moyne alias Morgan. Madame Sidney is given as Mary Sidney. She
was sister of Sir Philip, countess of Pembroke, ' Sidney's sister,
Pembroke's mother.' There is no allusion to Sir Philip in the