He will not visit among the young ladies; he is as old as fifty, at least." This same youthful misogynist and philosopher also writes to his brother on January 11: "I intend soon writing another letter in which I shall prove to your satisfaction that poetry is much superior to painting.

You asserted the contrary in one of your letters, and brought an argument to prove it.

I shall show the fallacy of that argument, and bring those to support my doctrine which are incontrovertible." A letter from his friend, Mrs.Jarvis, the sister of his erstwhile flame, Miss Jannette Hart, informs him of the marriage of another sister to Captain Hull of the navy, commander of the Constitution.

In this letter, written on March 4, 1813, at Bloomingdale, New York City, Mrs.Jarvis says:-- "I am in general proud of the spirit of my countrymen, but there is too little attention paid to the fine arts, to men of taste and science.

Man here is weighed by his purse, not by his mind, and, according to the preponderance of that, he rises or sinks in the scale of individual opinion.