She requests me, therefore, to answer your favor of the 22d of June.

She thanks you extremely for writing, and wishes me to say that she considers herself in every way under great obligations to you.

Your account of her son's progress and the high estimation in which he is held has made her very happy, and she earnestly prays that all may continue well with him.

He sent us, a short time ago, several large photographs of his two statues, taken from different points of view.

We know little about such things, but they seem to us wonderfully beautiful.