Autograph letter signed : Turin, to Mrs. Hewitt, [1858] Aug. 29.

Saying he is sorry to hear she is suffering; saying that "I entirely feel with you in that matter of 'occupation'--anything can be borne if you are busy--nothing if you are obliged to be idle;" answering five questions she has put to him in a previous letter; saying that "most people who undergo a great deal of real suffering have clouds of happy thoughts--bright clouds like those sunsets of yours--and most people who have nothing to vex them are always vexed;" telling her that he is "copying bits of Paul Veronese here from a large picture in the gallery and I see the degree of excitement it causes in tourists. It is a bright picture--containing about twenty figures and to examine properly and appreciate properly would take about three months. Tourists of the general class and the elite of tourists who come with couriers and valets de place actually give it from three to four seconds; attentive ones, who are really seeking for information--from seven to ten--on one occasion I saw a lady look at it for a full half minute;" answering her question as to "how did you employ yourself all the long light days?" by saying that "I past [sic] a good deal of time in grumbling that I couldn't draw as well as Turner...I spent no end of time in watching lizards and occasionally ants-- and some in hunting among pebbles for mountain streams that had disappeared without giving an account of themselves; saying he will return to London in mid-September but he would not like anyone to know he will be there for he will be leaving again quite soon.