[ Joseph Durham ] Autograph Letter Signed "Josh. Durham", sculptor, to "Spiers", architect[Richard Phene Spiers?], photographer[?] about photographs sent.

Four pages, 12mo, bifolium, good condition. "Many thanks to you for the photographs- they are delightful remembrances or rather they recall a delightful visit for if truth must be told, I don't think the Photo by any means a successful one - you look dreadfully ill, your son worse Mrs Spiers a Mulatto, Hull [or Hall] - all four, Mrs Hull[Hall] & Mrs Hawthorne very [?underlined] would not be made frights of. Addison looks as he did when he wouldn't go into the water[.] No one can make funny look otherwise than pretty - no, not even the camera - altogether I am glad not to be of such a melancholy looking lot - not but what I like you all quite as well - for you are so much the reverse of what you look, and I of [?][signature]". In a postscript he invites a visit.