On Thursday I leave town for 12 or 14 days, and when I return I hope it will not be too late to send the remainder.
Ten, I think was the original number of large drawings we agreed upon, but you said you would rather have less of them and more small ones, and consequently I determined on having eight large and twenty or thirty small. I shall not however, be strict as to number, but will do as many as you can give me time to do.
As I may safely say that more than half are now done it would be agreeable to me if you will let me have half of the L.S.D. at your earliest convenience.
I remain
Very Truly Yours
Richard Doyle
As I have worked two of the blocks, I have got into a mess with rubbing out. I shall be glad if you will send one me or two more.
We gave Doyle a commission to do a Panorama of an Overland Journey to the Great Exhibition of 1851, which it was intended should be published before, or immediately after, the opening day. We need hardly say the drawings were not done to time; in fact, the last of them was not finished until just on the closing of the Exhibition, consequently the publication was a dead failure.
"Scotland."