James Northcote, London, to Saml. Northcote, Plymouth, Devonshire
He is very obliged for Mr. Hunt's offers of hospitality, as they have never met; he leaves for Portsmouth on May 13th; he has been too busy painting drapery for
Sir Joshua to send a picture to the [
Royal Academy] exhibition, and put in a head of Mr. Tolcher; he gives details of the pictures he has sent to Plymouth; comments on Elford's picture, which was sent too late to be included in the catalogue; he has been to the Strand exhibition [
Society of Artists]; he has bought some prints and looks forward to examining them together; the
Duchess of Kingston is at trial, Sir Joshua says he has a head of her he painted in Saltram before he went to Italy.