You cannot judge impartially of my feelings until you are placed in my situation.

Do not say I suffer myself to be carried away by my feelings; your feelings could never have been tried as mine have; you cannot see with the eyes I do; you cannot have the means of ascertaining facts on this side of the water that I have.

But I will leave this subject and only say see _Dr.
Romeyn_....
I find no encouragement whatever in Bristol in the way of my art.
National feeling is mingled with everything here; it is sufficient that I am an American, a title I would not change with the greatest king in Europe.
I find it more reasonable, living in Bristol, or I should go to London immediately.

Mr.and Mrs.Allston are well and send you their respects.
They set out for London in a few days after some months' _unsuccessful_ (between ourselves) residence here.

All public feeling is absorbed in one object, the _conquest of the United States;_ no time to encourage an artist, especially an American artist.
I am well, extremely well, but not in good spirits, as you may imagine from this letter.