And now I am going to <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />beg a great favor of you & hope <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />that you will pardon me if <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />my request is unreasonable, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& that is that you would <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />send to my <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H9236694 https://viaf.org/viaf/198146998388318941056">wife</persName> a portrait <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of yourself to hang up in <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />our Drawing room. We are <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />quite envious <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#ow">&</del> <add place="across">of</add> </subst> <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear">the one you have sent to</add> <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0015345 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11671350X"><choice> <abbr>Col.</abbr> <expan>Colonel</expan> </choice> Sabine</persName>’s <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& if <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#ow">I</del> <add place="across">we</add> </subst> could have procured one<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="2r" />without troubling you we <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />should have done so. Perhaps <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />if you can spare one you will <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />kindly write Mrs <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H9236694 https://viaf.org/viaf/198146998388318941056">Hooker</persName>’s name <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />on it, that she may have a <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />memorial of you herself.