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must take their chances in the world--he cared no further about them--
     Of course I could do no more. Except I believe I tried to get up a party to buy it for the New York gallery, which for some reason or other failed--Mr FW [[Edward]]

Mr Durand Esq

I notice in a note (2 vol Dunlop [[^page 315]] that he says the picture was sold & taken to London--I may therefore be under [[1 word strikethrough]] a wrong impression about the picture being pledged by Morse--but I got this impression from the merchants in Beaver Str. It may have been bought on speculation taken to London & pledged by its owner--
     I remember Morse's reply to me was a bucket of cold water on my anxiety for the preservation of the picture--
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Bronxville Aug 15. 57

Dear Sir
     The only Circumstance that I am familiar with in regard to [[Morse's]] picture of the House of Representatives is this-- 
     Some years since (say 6 or 8 yrs) a merchant in Beaver Street sent for me to look at a picture which he said had been sent to him from London for sale--I went to see it and found it was [[Morse's]] picture of the H. of R.--It was in a bad condition, rolled up, cracked, and broken off in parts. The merchant told me the picture had been placed in the hands of his Correspondents in London some years before on a pledge for money loaned--that the artist never having redeemed [[strikethrough: one word]] it they now sent it to this country in hopes of getting their
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