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with thousands are strangers to careless enjoyment ——My sketch book greatly amuses my deck friends for there I find ready use for my pencil, poverty and hard labour are strangers to the formality of fashion — the passions show their marks upon the face untrammelled by a hypocritical smirk of exclusiveness & pride. The temptation to endeavor to draw these beautiful shores is irresistible & I have already filled half my sketch book with unsuccessfully attempts to hint their beauty. — May 13th Cincinnati - Cole's "voyage of life" at Mr Schoenberger's -- unclear of the allegory they might be good landscapes tho' far inferior to many of Coles works. Allegories of this description except in the hands of men of very greatest genius are seldome successful. The boy & boat & unclear become mere accessories to the landscape & dwindle into theatrical tinsel. — Again, the landscape is destroyed by a strained effect & composition. The "Elijah" in the same room is far superior(why are those allegories failures?) at Mr