I often say with Cowper: 'England, with all thy faults, I love thee still.' "I am longing for Edwards' comparison between poetry and painting, and to know how he will prove the former superior to the latter.

A painter _must_ be a poet, but a poet need not be a painter.

How will he get over this argument?
"By the way, Mr.Allston has just published a volume of poems, a copy of which I will endeavor to send you.

They are but just published, so that the opinion of the public is not yet ascertained, but there is no doubt they will forever put at rest the calumny that America has never produced a poet.
"I have lately been enquiring for the coat-of-arms which belongs to the Morse family.

For this purpose I wish to know from what part of this Kingdom the Morses emigrated, and if you can recollect anything that belongs to the arms.