Requesting that a rhyme on his painting
Merry Christmas in the olden time be inserted into
Fraser's Magazine. The same was done for
Old Hallow Eve. The picture has taken him four or five months of labour. He thinks the depiction of obselete customs requires explanation and wants to point to the rhyme in the magzine in the catalogue of the Royal Academy.
He has heard from
Thackeray that Fraser is in better health.