He is a very friendly man; he talked with me like a father and wished me to call and see him often and be intimate with him.
Age, instead of impairing his faculties, seems rather to have strengthened them, as his last great piece testifies.

He is soon coming out with another which Mr.Allston thinks will far surpass even this last.

The subject is Christ before Pilate.
"I went last week to Burlington House in Piccadilly, about forty-five minutes' walk, the residence of Lord Elgin, to see some of the ruins of Athens.

Lord Elgin has been at an immense expense in transporting the great collection of splendid ruins, among them some of the original statues of Phidias, the celebrated ancient sculptor.

They are very much mutilated, however, and impaired by time; still there was enough remaining to show the inferiority of all subsequent sculpture.