A fine letter advising on establishing a child’s artistic potential: “According to compact I send you a few scraps for your little protegée. They are very slight and careless (or as she would say, unstudied) but whe will be benefited by copying them. Never having myself received a lesson, I find it somewhat difficult … but I should advise her to copy each drawing at least twice, then, laying it aside, to endeavour to sketch it from memory. And let her bring you those recollections, along with her copies, - you will be able to form a more correct estimate of her latent powers from them than from any other of her productions.
