ABSTRACT
My dear fellows. [sic] I send you today the 2 Mace drawings in separate parcels, registered, and I hope you will be as pleased to see them come, as I do their going. You kindly promised to photograph them for me – & as near their exact size as you conveniently can – and – this is important, charge me with your fee – wh’ is as near to poetry as I can go. The infant partner is, I fancy, not returned from the celestial city of Paris, which is the heaven of all real French people.1 If they lived as long as Methuselah, they would not want to go to the other one – as they do not understand its ways.
