throughout, but the public will not care for any thing that exhibits the sort of imperfection it can understand at a glance.

The jewel of perfection I speak of is best found because it exists in connection with extraordinary artistic qualities, in some 3 or 4 of Winfield's, Val's, Fred Walker, Oldham Barlow - and one or two others - you should make an exchange with Winfield, & keep these as tests of your own, whilst you have (illegible) you see that you can always produce the same kind of excellence so you may devote all your energy to overcoming difficulties of comparatively trifling character.

Your last Tennyson is very fine but a little inky, something wrong about the eye. & rays streaking the forehead, the largest

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