I think we form a kind of family here, and I feel in an absence from Mr.and Mrs.Allston and yourself as I used to do when away from my mother and sisters.
By the bye, I have not had any letters from home for more than a month.
It seems the Americans are all united and we shall now have war in earnest.

I am glad of it for many reasons; I think it will not only get us a more speedy and permanent peace, but may tend to crush the demon of party spirit and strengthen our government.
I am done painting the gallery, and have finished my drawings for the frieze.

Thank you for your good wishes.
I thought Mr.Allston knew how proud I am of being considered his student.

Tell him, if he thinks it worth while to mention me at all in his letter to Delaplaine, I shall consider it a great honor to be called his student.
The father, in a letter of December 6, 1814, after again urging him to leave politics alone, adds this postscript: "P.S.

If you can make up your mind to remain in London and finish your great picture for the exhibition; to suppress your political feelings, and resolutely turn a deaf ear to everything which does not concern your professional studies; not to talk on politics and preserve a conciliating course of conduct and conversation; make as many friends as you can, and behave as a good man ought to in your situation, and put off going to France till after your exhibition,--this plan would suit us best.