only so, but wrote Him of your Assiduity and Diligence to Gett it on Board of a proper Vessel: And of your being obligd to Unshipp it once, by reason of the Ship's altering her Voyage for Another part of the World, after She putt up for Charlestown South Carolina. Upon the Whole, It will Much Rejoyce Me to hear from Mr Leigh which I Expect daily, and of Which you shall know. With Compliments To yr Good Mother I Subscribe y'r most humble Serv't

NarragansetT, Jan'y 7th, 1763.

S. FAYERWEATHER.

[Addressed:] To Mr. John Copley, Limner, Near the Orange Tree In Boston. These Pr favr of Mr Mumford.

SIR,

Captain Peter Traille1 to Copley

I received the favor of Yours, by the last Vessel from Boston and shou'd have sent for my Picture long ago but have not be[en] able to get a proper Oportunity. I shou'd be glad you would draw upon me for the Cash; and send the Picture when you can meet with a proper Conveyance.

It wou'd realy be worth Your while to make a Visit here. I am certain that y[ou would] get a Hundred or two £ ster'lg this summer. I shou'd be very glad to see You, and shou'd endeavor to make the Place as agreable to You as in my Power. I am Sir, Your Most Obedient and Humble Serv't

P. TRAILLE.

HALIFAX, 24th April, 1763.

1 The name is not in the Army List for this year.

DEAR SIR,

Copley to [Charles Pelham?]

BOSTON, Jan'y 24, 1764.

I have receifd the Money (103.10.) Old Ten'r from Mr Box and sent the same by Miss Johana Dodge (as you desired).

I have entertain'd some hopes I should have the happyness of seeing You once more in Boston, before the small Pox had spread its contagion so far as to render it utterly unsafe for You to venture without the risque of Your health if not Your Life by catching that distemper; but I can now by no means advise You to see this distresst Town, till its surcumstances are less mallancolly than they are at present, which I hope will be in a few months, and which I pray God of his. infinite goodness grant.

My dear Mamah sends her kind love and Blessing to You wishes You all imaginable helth and happyness in Your retreat, and her compliments with mine weit on the Coll❜l1 Mrs. Royall and the Young Ladys.

1

Our Brother Henry send his sincerest love to and best wishes for Your Happyness, and promisses strictly to observe Your good instructions to him, which were very sesonable, this being the first Day he has been able to draw sence You left us.

I have no time to add any perticulars about the small pox at present, only that it is very fatal, allmost every [one] being dead that has been taken with it, or remain dangerously ill. I hear there are several in the Country Towns that are broke out with it, perticularly two in Roxbury this Morn'g, which looks as if the callamity would be more general than we first expected.

1 Isaac Royall, who married, March 27, 1738, Elizabeth McIntosh, and in 1775 went, with other loyalists, to England, where he died in 1781. Two daughters were living in 1763 - Mary and Elizabeth.

But that kind Providence may preserve You and the good family in which You are from any Personal share in this Callamity is the herty prayer of, Dear Sir, Your affectionate friend and Brother

J: S: COPLEY.

Thomas Ainslie to Copley

QUEBEC, 12 Nov'r, 1764.

SIR,

A few days ago I had Letters from Scotland by the Snow Apthorp, in which my Young Son of 15 Months Old went a Passenger to Glasgow, and as there is a Paragraph in one of them, which does great honour to You, I think it a Justice, due to Your Merite to accquaint you with it, and that too in my Father in Laws own Words:

We drank Tea with Grandmama Ainslie the afternoon of his Arrival, and being in the dineing Room, the Infant eyed your Picture, he sprung to it, roared, and schriched, and attempted gripping the hand, but when he could not catch hold of it, nor gett You to speak to him, he stamp'd and scolded, and when any of us askt him for Papa, he always turned, and pointed to the Picture. What think [you] of this proof of the Painters Skill in taking Your likeness?

Now, Sir, As I have ever had an Inclination to do You a Service if in my power, and the propagating of this Circumstance, which I have taken Care to do having not a little added to Your fame here, And as I am of Opinion that a Jaunt into this Country would rather add to Your Credite, and fortune, than deminish it; If You will come here for two or three Months in the Summer, so as to be here in June, I have a Room in my house at Your Service, so that Your Stay will be no Expence to You, and not only my family, but all those of Credite in the town

would be glad to employ You. Be not overperswaded from coming, for certain I am Your Journey will be of Service to you and I shall have a pleasure in Entertaining You. I am, Sir, Your most hum'bl Servant

THOS. AINSLIE.

Let me hear from You by the post in the course of the Winter.

SIR,

Copley to [an English Mezzotinter]

1

BOSTON, Jan'y 25, 1765.

Out of pure regard to a good Old Decenting Cleargyman of this Town several Gentlemen have apply'd to me for the procuration of his portrait in Metzotinto. I therefore beg You will be pleasd to let me know on what terms You will undertake the same, and add to your demand for cuting the plate (which must be fourteen inches by ten 1 and containing only a head of the Rev'd Doc'r Sewell) 2 that of paper and Printing pr hundred. for as to number I shall want, that at present is alltogether uncertain, but I shall let You know in due time, leaving the plate in Your hands till I have a sufficient quantity Printed off, than desire the plate to be sent me with the last parcil of prints. I must beg You will not neglect writing to me the first oppertunity, for by the time Your answer comes to hand I shall have the Picture finishd and in proper Order to send. I shall likewise depend on Your perticular care in the preservation of the likeness that being a main part of the exellency of a portrait in the oppinion of our New England Conoseurs. be pleasd also to let me know the price of the different kinds of frames, as also that

1 This was first written twelve.

'2 Dr. Joseph Sewall was minister in the Old South Church from 1713 until his death in 1769.

of Glass, and when You write direct to John Singleton Copley portrait Painter in Cambrige street Boston. I am Sir Your Most Obed't Humble Ser't

J: S: C.

PROPOSALS FOR PRINTING DR. SEWELL'S PORTRAIT

[Circa January 25, 1765]

Proposals for executeing a portrait of The Revd Doctr Sewell in Metzotinto by John S. Copley, which he promises to procure with all convenient speed to be done by the Ablest Master in London from a Painting done by himself, provided these his pro[polsals are comply'd with, Viz: The Gentlemen who are desireous to forward the work must subscribe for prints to the amount of three hundred at three shillings and four pence per print, paying one half for any Number subscribed for at the time of subscribeing, the other half at the delivery of said prints: And upon Notice being given by Advertisement in the publick prints, or said Copley tendering the same to subscribers. Yet notwithstanding such Notice being given, They the subscribers do Neglect calling for said prints within three Months after such notice being given that, the said Copley shall not be accountable to them for any Moneys they have paid. And that in case the Picture should be lost in goin[g] to London, and if in the mean time The Father of mercys should take the Good Doctor to himself, by which means it will be impractable [for] said Copley to proceed in the Design, the Moneys paid by Subscribers shall be returnd, said Copley deducting for hi[s labor?] five pounds twelve shillings which is the price of said Picture.

Copley to [Thomas Ainslie]

BOSTON, Feb'y 25, 1765.

SIR,

Your kind favour came safe to hand, but not so soon as might have been expected, otherwise I should sooner have made my