ROSE AND CROWN INN, TINTERN ABBEY, Oct. 21.--I write in the parlor of a snug little village inn away up among the wooded hills of Monmouthshire, as great a contrast as possible to busy ...

One day in 1933, Simon Elwes (pronounced El-wez), a young socialite painter who was visiting friends in Yorkshire, decided to have a look at the local ruin, Fountains Abbey. He expected to see a ...