Autograph letter signed : Staines, Middlesex, to J. M. Robinson, 1856 Nov. 27.

Regretting that due to illness he cannot go out to vote in an Academy election, though when healthy he was always happy to support "any motion in favour of the claims of Engravers"; noting his objection to vote by proxy; thanking him for buying "my little Umbrella," saying that "to sell pictures to brother artists is the greatest honor that a painter obtains and is beyond all the encouragement of mere amateurs"; and looking forward to having enough money to buy a print of Robinson's recent work of the "mother and child from Leslie."