Autograph letter signed with initials : London, to his sisters Hannah and Margaret, 1832 July 26.

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Autograph letter signed with initials : London, to his sisters Hannah and Margaret, 1832 July 26.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/670743416

Saying that "the cholera is all humbug in [his] opinion"; noting that "London is thinning fast," and he is spending much of his time sitting in the House "for so few members are left that we are in contstant danger of being counted out"; repeating other details of London news; discussing his sisters' drawings; mentioning that he hopes to see their paintings in "the new Gallery which we are going to build for the Royal Academy at Charing Cross" [the National Gallery]; joking that he expects them to paint like [Adriaan van] Ostade and [J.M.W.] Turner.

1 item (6 p., with address) ; 23.1 and 32.3 cm

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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