This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.
Instead of some appropriate music, to relieve the tedium of waiting, I have substituted the silent harmony of our art, by the Picture of St Cecilia, the reputed Patroness of Music, which I have recently painted, somewhat varied from a Composition by Reubens. Bought by Mr. Jacobs for $300.- In the lecture I am about to submit to your Indulgence, not to make it too long I have omitted many subordinate notices of Drawings Medals &c which would be [[strikethrough]] more appropriate [[/strikethrough]] better recorded in the Lecture when published.