We were very sorry to miss your visit, but we were out visiting ourselves. I’ve thought the portrait matter all over, & I see that it won’t do for me to attempt it. I take all my Saturdays & Sundays to rest in, when I am at work, & I shall have to continue that custom here in order to keep myself in working trim. As I do my resting in bed, it wouldn’t be a good position for the portrait of a professedly live man.

Thank you kindly for the vis your note, which I received a few moments ago. I hope I shall be have an opportunity to visit your studio with my wife, yet. Maybe she can go by herself on Thursday. I was not well enough to go out, yesterday.