I have taken Merchant Tailors' Hall (a very large room) for this purpose, and shall probably open it in the course of next week.
Perhaps you will be surprised to hear that I have been retouching it.

I have just concluded a fortnight's hard work upon it, and have the satisfaction to add that I have been seldom better satisfied than with my present labor.

I have repainted the greater part of the draperies-- indeed, those of all the principal figures, excepting the Dead Man--with powerful and positive colors, and added double strength to the shadows of every figure, so that for force and distinctness you would hardly know it for the same picture.

The "Morning Chronicle" would have no reason now to complain of its "wan red."...
I am sorry that Parliament has been so impolite to you in procrastinating the fireworks.

But they are an unpolished set and will still be in the dark age of incivility notwithstanding their late illuminations.