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to remodel it all, which has now been done and greatly to its improvement. All I have now to do is to finish the arms, hands, and feet, and then it will be commenced at once in a beautiful block of marble which has been lying in my studio waiting for it these two years or more. I broke my determination not to model any more busts on the occasion of an order from you the bust of the Grand Duchess and since then I have made several others, for I stoof in need of money and I was determined not to accept of any more on account of Mr Calhouns statue until after I could send you a bill of lading for it. I have but little to so to the statue model now, I can finish all in a month and after I have finished packing up a duplicate of my statue of the slave to be sent to America for Exhibition in all the principal Cities, I shall go on with it and in about a year it will be on the way to you, finished in marble I am taking the greatest pains with this statue, and perhaps you would like to know how i have arranged the design of it, I know that Mr Calhoun is regarded as the defender of state rights, and particularly the right of S Carolina 

[[note]] and therefore while he holds up to view his motto engraved upon a scroll in his left hand and points to the inscription with his right his mantle falls partialy over the stem of the palmetto & the emblem of the state of Carolina which (tree) forms the support to the statue thus makes the sentiment [[strikethrough]] mutual [[/strikethrough]] reciprocal, that is, if he appears to protect the state, the state appears to support him. I had made an simple drapery upon the statue, for Mr Calhoun's figure being slender, I felt the want of siz to support the wonderful energy of his expression. 
I have no head in my studio, if I accept that of Genl Jackson, which strikes [[?]] so favorably as his does as it now appears in a statue; the effect is much increased I have made the statue about 4 inches above the natural size in order that when it stands alone, it may not appear diminuitive [[/note]]