I leave town to-morrow morning, probably for Hanover, as there is no conveyance direct to Walpole.
I have had no more portraits since I wrote you, so that I have received just one hundred dollars in Concord.

The last I took for ten dollars, as the person I painted obtained four of my sitters for me....
With respect to the confidential affair, everything is successful beyond my most sanguine expectations.

The more I know of her the more amiable she appears.

She is very beautiful and yet no coquetry; she is modest, quite to diffidence, and yet frank and open-hearted.

Wherever I have enquired concerning her I have invariably heard the same character of--"remarkably amiable, modest, and of a sweet disposition." When you learn that this is the case I think you will not accuse me of being hasty in bringing the affair to a crisis.