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but an attempt to delineate the probable or possible situation of the char. & circumstance & to compensate, for want of certainty, the artful ?, richness of coloring, force or harmony ? & and shade, & expression of countenance and ? [Whole side of page illegible] Sorry I couldn't read the MS [[here?]] statement is significant [Quotes Eng writer - hist. pntg good; portr. are best [also illegible] I cannot conclude better than by quoting an Am. poet, Mr. Wetmore, on pntg. 6 stanzas [next section: slightly different hand - may be Re P's] "Notes. Not to make the lecture too long [!] for delivery, the following passages were taken out & subjoined in the form of notes." - "The pntrs proper language flows from his pencil..." - need for art libraries like those in acad. Phila & Ath. in Boston - Sculpture & pntg (again) - Casts - tells how to make them - Canova & Thorwaldson [[Thorvaldsen]] - anecdotes "What I have said relates to pntg as it is understood in its most complete combinations, but it is art which consists of several distinct departments and whilst forms of