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Weston and Colonel Benjamin Allston. The latter gentleman was a son of one of the governors of South Carolina. He kindly gave me a letter of introduction to Commodore Richard Lowndes, who lived near the coast. From the Peedee I passed through a cut in the marshes into the broad Waccamaw, and descended it to Winyah Bay. Georgetown is located between the mouths of the Peedee and Sampit rivers.
Allston and Greenough had won laurels in Boston; Inman and Sully were making portraits in Philadelphia which well-to-do Middle States lawyers and Southern planters liked well enough to pay for in good banknotes; even in far-off Kentucky Joel T. Hart was making the busts of great American politicians on which his title to distinction was to rest.
"Big mistake No. 2," says I. "They got to convict somebody, and the arrow points to you. About fifteen years would be my guess. Now come, Allston, what good would you be after fifteen years' hard?" He shivers, but shrugs his shoulders dogged. "Poor little Helma!" says he. "Where is she?" "Excuse me, Mr. Allston," says I, "but that ain't the order of events.
"Not since the night before," says he. "Helma was down in the kitchen with Cook when they came." "Huh!" says I, rubbin' my chin as a help to deep thought. "The night before?" I don't know why, either, but somehow that makes me think of sawdust, and from sawdust say, I had it in a flash. "Sorry, Allston," says I, "but on account of Helma I was kind of in hopes they was just makin' a goat of you.
As no further mention of this play is made I fear that the great Charles Mathews did not find it available. There is also no trace of the play itself among the papers, which is rather to be regretted. Allston writes encouragingly to the parents. Morse unwilling to be mere portrait-painter. Ambitious to stand at the head of his profession. Desires patronage from wealthy friends. Delay in the mails.
James Wynne's reminiscences of Morse, Coleridge, Leslie, Allston, and Dr. Abernethy. Letters from his mother and brother. Letters from friends on the state of the fine arts in America. "The Dying Hercules" exhibited at the Royal Academy. Expenses of painting. Receives Adelphi Gold Medal for statuette of Hercules. Mr. Dunlap's reminiscences. Critics praise "Dying Hercules"
There are a few lines in the school-girl hand of Margaret Davidson, at nine years old; and a scrap of a letter from Washington Allston, a gentle and delicate autograph, in which we catch a glimpse of thanks to his correspondent for the loan of a volume of poetry.
Allston I shall esteem as one of my best and most intimate friends, and in whatever I can assist him or his I shall feel proud in being able to do it. "Mr. and Mrs. Allston are well. I dined with them yesterday at Captain Visscher's, whom I have mentioned to you before as one of our passengers.
You must recollect I am yet but a student and that a picture of any merit is not painted in a day. Experienced as Mr. Mr. Allston was nearly two years in painting his large picture. Young Haydon was three years painting his large picture, is now painting another on which he has been at work one year and expects to be two years more on it.
"I am longing for Edwards' comparison between poetry and painting, and to know how he will prove the former superior to the latter. A painter must be a poet, but a poet need not be a painter. How will he get over this argument? "By the way, Mr. Allston has just published a volume of poems, a copy of which I will endeavor to send you.
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