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of his journey hither – you will see the little copy he has made of his Mothers Portrait but as He is too modest to talk much of his own Works, He may not describe to you what He has executed in his own particular Art, so fully, as I think these Performances deserve to be made known to you – Let me therefore say for Him that besides his diminutive medallion of our pleasant little Architect He has finished a Bust of the Hermit, which our Friend Guy has praised as a very striking Resemblance.
The youth has assuredly been actuated by a Spirit truly filial to devote spontaneously so much of his attention to finish for himself in two different Arts, the likenesses of the two odd Mortals, who have watched over his infancy with no common anxiety & affection. – if I am not blinded by parental partiality, these Portraits do Honor both to his Heart & his Hand.- Nothing however can shew me the goodness of his nature more pleasing Light, than his perfect attachment to you & your divine Art & that an attachment so just so honorable, so delightful may be long and happy, in every point of view, is the fervent prayer my dear Friends (for in my prayers I include the tender Nancy) of
yr anxious & affectionate
Hermit