The Cotman Letters 1834

comfort depends. As to outward things it does appear that the poor man’s evening of life may be brighter than his noonday has been. J. C. had been to visit Constable, the artist who lives at Hampstead & who is now almost entirely disabled from pursuing his art, by illness. I was glad to hear from him that Prout for whom we were led to entertain so much fear last summer is so far more hopefully circumstanced that he is not worse. I imagine therefore that consumption is no longer feared for him.
I asked J. Cotman to procure the catalogue of the British Institution, for which you, dear Papa, wished.

[in the coll[ectio]n of family letters at Bush Hall, Hatfield.]