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 Rh Let us see you sometimes as well as sometimes hear from you, and let us often see your works.

Compliments to Mrs. Cumberland and family.

—Yours in head and heart,.

A merry Christmas.

5.

To the Revd. Dr..

,

16th August 1799.

,—I find more and more that my style of designing is a species by itself, and in this which I send you have been compelled by my Genius or Angel to follow where he led; if I were to act otherwise it would not fulfil the purpose for which alone I live, which is, in conjunction with such men as my friend Cumberland, to renew the lost art of the Greeks.