| Untitled Page 24 VIA DANTE DA CASTIGLIONE,
FLORENCE, ITALY.
My dear Mrs. Stanford:
Please accept my kindest
thanks for your most highly esteemed
letter of the 9th inst. and the order
therein contained for the Sphinxes
which I shall proceed at once to
execute with a little delay as possible,
and to the best of my ability.
Just at present it would be difficult
to say exactly when the figures
will be finished and arrive in
California, but I will promise to
advise you in time, so that buttresses
can be made ready for them.
I thank you also for sending
Mr. Autin's address as it is
necessary to have an exact measure
that cannot be gotten from the
drawing very well
Your very kind remarks regarding your
sons portrait are highly gratifying,
and amply compensate me for all
I went through when I saw you and
the Governor in the most trying
moments of your afflication, and I
felt then as I feel now, if in any
way I can give comfort by replacing
as near as possible the lost one,
then my life is worth while; and
if through my efforts your
sorrows have been in the least eased,
I thank God for it. Having the
material to make a statue of your
son, (excepting the exact height) there
is no reason why I could not give
you an entirely satisfactory portrait,
and if I should be selected for the
work, certainly nothing would be
left undone to make it all you
could desire.
When you have fully determined
about the family group, I would | Untitled Page 24 VIA DANTE DA CASTIGLIONE,
FLORENCE, ITALY.
My dear Mrs. Standford:
Please accept my kindest
thanks for your most highly esteemed
letter of the 9th inst. and the order
therein contained for the Sphinxes
which I shall proceed at once to
execute with a little delay as possible,
and to the best of my ability.
Just at present it would be difficult
to say exactly when the figures
will be finished and arrive in
California, but I will promise to
advise you in time, so that buttresses
can be made ready for them.
I thank you also for sending
Mr. Autin's address as it is
necessary to have an exact measure
that cannot be gotten from the
drawing very well
Your very kind remarks regarding your
sons portrait are highly gratifying,
and amply compensate me for all
I went through when I saw you and
the Governor in the most trying
moments of your afflication, and I
felt then as I feel now, if in any
way I can give comfort by replacing
as near as possible the lost one,
then my life is worth while; and
if through my efforts your
sorrows have been in the least eased,
I thank God for it. Having the
material to make a statue of your
son, (excepting the exact height) there
is no reason why I could not give
you an entirely satisfactory portrait,
and if I should be selected for the
work, certainly nothing would be
left undone to make it all you
could desire.
When you have fully determined
about the family group, I would |
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