Autograph letter signed with initials : place not specified, to Mrs. Hewitt, undated.

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Autograph letter signed with initials : place not specified, to Mrs. Hewitt, undated.

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Discussing depression and work; saying that "great workers themselves are not happy. They work with never ceasing toil, but quite unhesitatingly and mechanically as the Bee does. She is probably not happy certainly in a glowing sense. Titian and Turner painted just as a weaver weaves--calmly--knowing the woof good--but with as much feeling of incapacity of doing all they would as you have; and they were not half--not a thousandth part--so happy in their power, as I am in my incapacity--kneeling, as I always do when I am alone--before any of their great pictures;" saying he is sorry he didn't meet her earlier; saying his mother asks if she has read [John] Newton's Kardiphonia [Cardiphonia]?

1 item ( 4 p.) ; 17.7 cm

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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