I really long to see Charlestown again; I have almost forgotten how it looks.

I have some thoughts of taking a view of Boston from Bunker's Hill when I go home again.

It will be some pleasure to me to have some picture of my native place to look upon when I am from home." And in August, 1809, he writes to his parents: "I employ all my leisure time in painting.

I have a great number of persons engaged already to be drawn on ivory, no less than seven.

They obtain the ivories for themselves.