rest to her, and his
memory must always recall theirs. I hear Campbell means to write
his life. His letters to me will perhaps be published in it. Had I
known they were likely to be so used, I would have preserved them
all. As it is, it is the merest chance that all of them are not
destroyed; for, admirable as they were in point of taste and
critical judgment, some of them seemed to me such mere specimens of
refined flattery that, having extracted the advice likely to be
profitable to me, I committed the epistles themselves to the
flames, which probably would have been the ultimate destination of
them all; but now they have acquired a sad value they had not
before, and I shall keep them as relics of a man of great genius
and, in many respects, I believe, a truly amiable person.

The drawing, which is, you know, my mother's property, is safe in
Mr. Lane's hands, and will be restored to us on Saturday. The
funeral takes place to-morrow; my father, I believe, will attend;
neither my mother nor myself can muster courage to witness it,
although we had places offered to us. It is to take place in St.
Paul's, for Westminster Abbey is full. All the beautiful unfinished
portraits which filled his rooms will be returned imperfect to
their owners, and I wonder who will venture to complete them, for
he has certainly not left his like behind him. Reports have been
widely spread that his circumstances were much embarrassed, but I
fancy when all his effects are sold there will be a small surplus.
He behaved with the utmost liberality about his drawing of me, for
he gave it to my mother, and would not accept of any remuneration
for the copyright of the print from Mr. Lane--who, it is said, made
three hundred pounds by the first impressions taken from it--saying
that he had had so much pleasure in the work that he would not take
a farthing for either time or trouble.

We are all tolerably well; I am quite so, and rejoice daily in that
strength of constitution which, among other of my qualifications,
entitles me to the appellation of "Shetland pony."

How are you all? How is E----? Tell her all about me, because it
may amuse her. I wish you could have seen me, dear H----, in my
Greek dress; I really look very well in it, and taller than usual,
in consequence