
It gives me great pleasure to inform you that the portrait & painting of you a few years
ago has been purchased by one of your admirers and presented to the Met. Museum of Art of
New York—where I hope it will be seen by many thousands of people and for many years to
come. I am delighted to have been the means of giving to future generations a portrait
of you that is certainly one of my best works. I may tell
you also that it has been engraved and is to be published in Harpers Magazine.
Hoping you are in good health and with best of good wishes.
Very truly yours John W. Alexander