I was glad to see American papers again.

I see by them that the lottery is done drawing.

How has my ticket turned out?
If the weight will not be too great for one shipload, I wish you would send the money by the next vessel." The lottery was for the benefit of Harvard College.
"_September 3, 1811._ I have finished a drawing which I intended to offer at the Academy for admission.

Mr.Allston told me it would undoubtedly admit me, as it was better than two thirds of those generally offered, but advised me to draw another and remedy some defects in handling the chalks (to which I am not at all accustomed), and he says I shall enter with some eclat.

I showed it to Mr.West and he told me it was an extraordinary production, that I had talent, and only wanted knowledge of the art to make a great painter." In a letter to his friends, Mr.and Mrs.Jarvis, dated September 17, 1811, he says:-- "I was astonished to find such a difference in the encouragement of art between this country and America.