Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Archaeology, Crime, Controversy, Periodicals

    Attempts to respond to a correspondent in the Hampshire Advertiser who attacked Punch for suggesting that the antiquaries who visited Netley Abbey 'for a sake of a laugh tear down those things which, though trifling in themselves, are valued for their rarity by those who really can appreciate them'. Punch is mystified by this attack.