He describes, briefly, his journey to Rome, saying he sketched extensively, both the scenery and the peasantry; he has completed paintings of Lake Lucerne and a market scene at Berne; he thinks it too late to send pictures for the [
Academy] exhibition; he finds the lack of landscape painting in Rome a disappointment and finds sketching out-of-doors a relief; he asks for letters of introduction to
Eastlake and other artists in Rome; he describes a recent flood in Rome and the consequent destruction of the Tivoli cascade.