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her one formal morning visit, unaccompanied, this I think indispensible, tho' at the same time we would most willingly withdraw ourselves wholly from the acquaintance could it be done with decency.

Your benevolence ever seeking to perform kind offices has induced you to give a portion of attention to my future improvements & in Art and many valuable hints for \which/ I shall ever be thankful, and as they agree with these general principles which are the most excellent for the regulation of Monumental composition so they will be my guides in all future works of that class – but you know that general \rules/ never hold good in all cases without some allowance, so L:^d M:^d's Monument being for a particular Situation in Westminster Abbey, the form of the Arch under which it will be placed, and the surrounding objects require that it whould be a group nearly [sic] of the form and dimensions which I have determined, otherwise it would be in discord with the whole, and destroying by impairing the effect of the whole it's [sic] own must suffer as a part by natural consequence, the attendant figures which with L: M: form the group are Wisdom and Justice, not Fortitude and Justice, Fortitude is represented with a Lion by her Side and leaning on a Column, which be a proper emblem for a General an Admiral or or Patriot, but by no means for a Judge, neither can my figure of Minerva or Wisdom overlooking the Justinian Pandex ever be mistaken for

Fortitude