| Description | Letter to Edward Linley Sambourne, artist, from Robert Duncan, [shipbuilder, MP?], thanking him for his two kind notes, the more he is familiar with his [Linley's] figure of Britannia the more he likes her, the original drawing is framed in oak carved to represent a knotted rope in high relief, the lady in Chelsea is Miss Florence Carlyle and she will welcome advice on her work and methods of approaching publishers.
Written at Whitefield, Govan, Glasgow. |