Thursday
My Dear Henry
I have been to Mr Thorburn <1> & find you owe him twenty guineas for that picture. His price is now 30 guineas. I saw the Baron de Neumann <2> last Night at Lady Palmerston’s <3> ball, he asked me to remind you that you promised him some photographs for the Academy at Vienna & he hoped the Grand Duke of Tuscany <4> would not absorb them – answer the questions I asked in my yesterdays Letter. I forgot to mention that your’s <sic> asking for an album to be sent, was received here two days after date Whose fault I don’t know – the Post office most likely.
affly yrs
EF
Notes:
1. Possibly Robert Thorburn (1818–1885), miniature painter.
2. Philipp Freiherr von Neumann (Philipp Baron de Neumann) (b. 1781). [See Doc. No: 04013].
3. Lady Emily Lamb Palmerston (1787–1869).
4. Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1824 to 1859.