Draft letter in reply to hers [GI/1/315.] Gibson writes that he was thinking of leaving Rome at the end of the month for the baths at Lucca, in the company of [
Harriet Hosmer], although
[Penry] Williams was to remain all summer. Gibson had been engaged all winter modelling a group of a girl and child whom he seen in the street. He intended to call the group a nymph playing with Eros, and was to execute the work in marble twice over. He lists various statues that he had been colouring, including the 'Pandora' for
Lady M[arian] Alford, and adds "with respect to painted statues you see that I have had it all my own way." Gibson describes a visit to his studio by the
Prince of Wales, in the course of which the Prince took him aside and presented him with "a costly diamond ring". He also describes the reaction, on the same occasion, to his announcement that his portrait statue had been installed among those of other modern sculptors at the Klyptotheke by
King Lewis of Bavaria.