T[homas] L[awrence], Russell Square, to Rev. Andrew Lawrence, Haslar, near Gosport

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He is busier and working harder than ever in his life; he feels he cannot decline any social engagements for the sake of the Academy's credit, he hopes to back out of sociable life after a year or so; he asks if Andrew would receive a pension if he wuit his position through ill health; he works to complete his pictures for the next exhibition as his reputation will never be as high as it presently stands; his horse Azor is dead, he is buried in Charing, a volley of shots was fired over his grave; the Duke of Wellington has visited, he summarises the Dukes opinions on the current national mood and state of the army; he recently had an audience with the King and refers to the trial of the Queen.

Published in Letter-Bag, Layard, 1906.