The things we do!

"'Pall Mall Gazette,' Journal of Politics, Literature and Fashion, 225
Catherine Street, Strand,
"Dear Clive--I regret very much for Fred Bayham's sake (who has lately
taken the responsible office of Fine Arts Critic for the P. G.) that your
extensive picture of the 'Battle of Assaye' has not found a place in the
Royal Academy Exhibition. F. B. is at least fifteen shillings out of
pocket by its rejection, as he had prepared a flaming eulogium of your
work, which of course is so much waste paper in consequence of this
calamity. Never mind. Courage, my son. The Duke of Wellington you know
was best back at Seringapatam before he succeeded at Assaye. I hope you
will fight other battles, and that fortune in future years will be more
favourable to you. The town does not talk very much of your discomfiture.
You see the parliamentary debates are very interesting just now, and
somehow the 'Battle of Assaye' did not seem to excite the public mind.
"I have been to Fitzroy Square; both to the stables and the house.


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