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1847
Nov. 14th

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My Dear Sir, from the moment I received your letter in which you reference a wish to be released from the contract about my statue I considered myself as acting in the capacity of your agent. but as I had counted upon the 1st payment for it. and had made no other arrangements for the sum I called for I was obliged to draw upon you for the £300 or subject myself to a very great inconvenience. Indeed I had a right to draw for that sum long before according to custom with artists generaly, but the fact of my being a personal stranger to you made me feel it a point of dellicacy to ask you to trust me, as I was willing to trust you with that sum until I could send testimony that the work was far advanced and the marble a perfect specimen of the kind. I have since engaged the use of the £300 no longer than I had previously a right to enjoy it and if I have not pressed Mr Robb for immediate payment of the 2d and last submittance upon the work for him for reasons similar to those above, for not urging you to pay me your 1st submittance (Mr Robb is also a personal stranger to me) I do not perceive
that you ought to complain of me. My obligation to you was in progress of honorable fulfillment when you