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What an interesting Mother is your afflicted Mrs Lushington! I have also a Letter from her, which I am answering by this Post. | What an interesting Mother is your afflicted Mrs Lushington! I have also a Letter from her, which I am answering by this Post. | ||
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yr design for her daughters [sic] Monument delights me, & if my Inscription has any Pathos, I owe it to the double Inspiration of her Letters & your Pencil – highly eloquent both! – pressed as I am for Time, I will scrawl a Copy of the Epitaph, which I am sending her by this Post, that you may tell me, with all the Frankness of true Friendship, if it harmonizes, as<u> it ought to do,</u> with your exquisite Figures. – pray do you know the | yr design for her daughters [sic] Monument delights me, & if my Inscription has any Pathos, I owe it to the double Inspiration of her Letters & your Pencil – highly eloquent both! – pressed as I am for Time, I will scrawl a Copy of the Epitaph, which I am sending her by this Post, that you may tell me, with all the Frankness of true Friendship, if it harmonizes, as<u> it ought to do,</u> with your exquisite Figures. – pray do you know the | ||
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My very dear Flaxman
You have my most cordial Thanks for yr very kind pacquet - particularly yr pleasing sketches to exercise the pencil of our dear Invalide, who will write to you as soon as He has executed yr kind Commission of trying the Light for yr new Monument, by contemplating the Cast you so agreably promise us, in the situation proposed for yr admirable Work –
What an interesting Mother is your afflicted Mrs Lushington! I have also a Letter from her, which I am answering by this Post.
yr design for her daughters [sic] Monument delights me, & if my Inscription has any Pathos, I owe it to the double Inspiration of her Letters & your Pencil – highly eloquent both! – pressed as I am for Time, I will scrawl a Copy of the Epitaph, which I am sending her by this Post, that you may tell me, with all the Frankness of true Friendship, if it harmonizes, as it ought to do, with your exquisite Figures. – pray do you know the