Autograph letter signed : London, to [Samuel] Laurence, 1847 October 16.

Acknowledging receipt of a copy of a lithographic portrait of himself created after a photograph and relaying his wife's and his own suggestions for corrections to be made to the image ("The extreme point of the nose a degree too sharp, and cocked-up;--to be remedied by some delicate scrape or stroke, if feasible? Item, the Body of the Figure, owing to what is drawn and to what is not drawn of it, does it not suggest to you a somewhat grosser man than the very lean original? These are the suggestions of the female mind ... I myself have nothing whatever to say on the matter, except perhaps that the "rottenness" under the chin and elsewhere still requires a last touch of healing"); describing a recent excursion to Ambleside and Windermere.