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Beinecke Library, Osborn MSS File ‘S’, Folder 14141. ALS; 2p. . Not previously published.
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I do not think the progress of Revolution in Brazil will be so rapid
as to destroy the credit of Government, or materially to affect its finances for some
time. Even from Para the surplus of the Treasury will be remitted to the Rio, till
the people of the former place chuse to make themselves the capital of a separate
republic.The I hope & trust that your brother
As many of poor dear Nash’s drawings
relating to my family as I could describe & his representatives could ascertain
have been sent for me to Harry’s;
& among them I doubt not, are the three drawings of your
God daughter, of which one was designed for you, one for
himself, & one for me. Make your choice of these. Of the two which he took away
in nearly a finished state, I know not which was to be preferred, – that in the lilac
dress had most of the features, that in the redder one more of the character; – he
expected to make the third of which the dress was not coloured when he went away,
better than either.