TO

JOSEPH R. INGERSOLL, ESQ.

I SHOULD not perhaps presume, Sir, to connect your name with the following imperfect production. But since the gentlemen, at whose invitation it was delivered, have thought it not unfit for publication, I confess I was unwilling to lose the opportunity, at once to pay a just tribute to an admirer of the Arts, and to convey a mark, though indeed a slight one, of sincere esteem and friendship.

H. D. GILPIN.

PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS,

November 6, 1826.

AT a meeting of the President and Directors held this evening, it was Resolved, that Messrs. C. N. Bancker, J. K. Kane, and E. S. Burd, be a committee to invite Henry D. Gilpin, Esq., to deliver the annual discourse, before the Academy, on the 29th instant.

November 30, 1826.

AT a meeting of the President and Directors held this evening, it was unanimously Resolved, that Messrs. Bancker, Kane, and Burd, be a committee to tender to Henry D. Gilpin, Esq., the thanks of the Academy, for the able and instructive discourse delivered by him last evening in their presence-and that they solicit a copy thereof for publication.

FRANCIS HOPKINSON,

Secretary.