I received a letter from my friend, Miss Bartlett, a day or two since, saying that you were going to form a class in Christian Science, early in Sept, next, & that you might possibly receive me as a pupil & take your tuition fee in my work of Art.

Miss Bartlett also intimated that a portrait of yourself might be the most acceptable work I could offer – If such an arrangement should be made meet your approval I should be pleased to join the class, & paint a portrait, which I have no doubt will be satisfactory to you – To paint such a portrait as I should wish to offer you, would require several weeks, & even months to finish, & as the long summer days give me more & better light to study color & effects, I should like to begin it as soon as may suit your [?] Unclear or illegible  – All the drapery &cExpanded:et cetera I can paint from a good Photograph & shall only require two or three sittings for the face, then to save you time & give me a good opportunity to work, I would suggest that you fix upon a day & hour in the near future in what you can sit for a Photograph (at my expense) – let me know a day or two before & I will make an appointment with a Photographer & call for you– You will of course wear the costume you wish painted, & I would suggest the purple velvet, you wore three Sabbaths ago at Hawthorne Rooms, as the color is very effective in painting, & the dress struck me as being exceedingly becoming to you –