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figure, with gun, strap, and buckles, and eyes that to me 

 arc more those of an enraged Eagle than mine. Yet it is 

 to be engraved. Sir Walter Scott saw my drawings for a 

 few moments yesterday, and I hope to meet him to-mor- 

 row when I dine with the Antiquarian Society at the Wat- 

 erloo Hotel, where an annual feast is given. My work is 

 proceeding in very good style, and in a couple of days 

 colored plates will be at the exhibition rooms, and at the 

 different booksellers ; but with all this bustle, and my 

 hopes of success, my heart is heavy, for hoprs are not 

 facts. The weather is dull, moist, and disagrceab'v cold at 

 times, and just now the short duration of the daylight 

 here is shocking ; the lamps are lighted in the streets at 

 half-past three o'clock P. M., and are yet burning at half- 

 past seven A. M. 



November 30. My portrait was finished to-day. I can- 

 not say that I think it a very good resemblance, but it 

 is a fine picture, and the public must judge of the rest. 

 I had a bad headache this morning, which has now passed ; 

 to be ill far from home vvould be dreadful, away from my 

 Lucy, who would do more for me in a day than all the 

 doctors in Christendom in a twelvemonth. I visited the 

 exhibition rooms for a few minutes; I would like to go 

 there oftcner, but really to be gazed at by a crowd is, of 

 all things, most detestable to me. Mr. Gregg called 

 about four, also Mr. Bridges and an acquaintance of the 

 famous " Alligator Rider," and I was told that Mr. 

 Waterton said that Joseph Bonaparte imitated the man- 

 ners and habits of his b'-otner Napoleon; that is much 

 more than I know or saw. But St. Andrew's Day and my 

 invitation to dine with the Antiquarians was not forgotten. 

 At five I was at Mr. Lizars', where I found Mr. Moule 

 and we proceeded to the Waterloo Hotel. The sitting- 

 room was soon filled ; I met many that I knew, and a few 

 minutes after the Earl of Elgin ^ made his entree, I was 

 * Thomas Bruce, seventh Earl of Elgin. 1777-1841. 



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