He has learnt of the death of
West and the election of Lawrence; he criticises the
Royal Academy for its neglect of architecture and he pleads the case of architect students, who do not have a fine collection of casts to inspire them; he puts himself forward as a candidate to spuerintend the compilation of a cast collection and states that
Mr. Westmacott backs him; he gives a brief precis of his itinerary through Greece and Asia Minor, the latter with three French architects dressed in native costume; he finishes by refering to a friend who is tryig to dispose of a collection of Graeco-Roman vases.