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me. Merely to show you my willingness, however, I inclose you 

 a letter to Colonel Monroe, who, without it, would do everything 

 he could for you, and with it not the less. His warm heart infuses 

 zeal into all his good offices. I give it to him the rather, also, be- 

 cause he will be in place when you will need them. Mr. Madison 

 will be away, and it would be useless to add to the labors of his 

 letter-reading ; and I know, moreover, his opinions and dispositions 

 towards you to be as favorable as can be wished. I rejoice that 

 the works you have so long contemplated are likely to come to 

 light. If the legislature, to the reedification of the public build- 

 ings, will take up with spirit their decoration also, yours must be 

 the first object of their attentions. 



I hope they will do it, and honor themselves, their country, and 

 yourself, by preserving these monuments of our Revolutionary 

 achievements. 



My daughter, whom you knew an infant, has, with her family, 

 given me a dozen associates at our daily table. She is well, and re- 

 members all her friends affectionately. I am, as I ever have been, 

 Sincerely yours, 



COLONEL TRUMBULL. TII: JEFFERSON. 



BENJAMIN WEST TO COLONEL TRUMBULL. 



DEAR SIR, The letter you favored me with on your arrival 

 at New York, did not come to hand till three months and one day 

 after the date, and then brought by the penny-post, and not by 

 the gentleman whom it was meant to introduce to a sight of my 

 paintings. 



The favorable opportunity by my nephew, John Clarkson, re- 

 turning to Philadelphia, I could not permit to pass without giving 

 you this letter, and some account of the arts and artists here. 



Mr. Sharp is attentive to the plate from your picture of Gibral- 

 tar, and promises to be successful in that production. 



The " Chatham," by Bartolozzi, is not yet ready, Copley finding 

 some points not to his satisfaction. Bartolozzi has just finished a 

 large print from my picture of St. Paul, at Greenwich, in a style 

 much to my satisfaction, being a mixture of etching and engrav- 

 ing united, and forms a print exactly answering to my finished 

 sketches in painting. 



Sir Joshua Reynolds, through the misfortune of being deprived 



