Mr <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H8894976">Polyblank</persName> hopes for <pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="1v" /><add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear">the</add> privilege of obtaining a <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />Sitting from you, & I need <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />not say that if you feel <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />able to grant him this <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />honor, you will afford <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the highest gratification <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />to hosts in this <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010934 https://www.geonames.org/2635167">country</placeName>. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />I can with confidence assert, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />that there is no artist <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />from whom we would <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />rather have such a portrait <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />than Mr <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H8894976">Polyblank</persName>.