I abide your decision, however, completely.

Mr.Allston will write you fully on this subject, and I will endeavor to persuade Mr.West also to do it.
"France I could not, at present, visit with advantage; that is to say for, perhaps, a year.

Mr.Allston thinks I ought to be previously well grounded in the principles of the English school to resist the corruptions of the French school; for they are corrupt in the principles of painting, as in religion and everything else; but, when well grounded in the good principles of this school, I could study and select the few beauties of the French without being in danger of following their many errors.

The Louvre also would, in about a year, be of the greatest advantage to me, and also the fine works in Italy....
"Mama has amused me very much in her letter where she writes on politics.
She says that, next to changing one's religion, she would dislike a man for changing his politics.

Mama, perhaps, is not aware that she would in this way shut the door completely to conviction in anything.