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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Letters from England by Elizabeth Davis Bancroft: we went to Westminster Hall to see the prize pictures, as Lord
Lansdowne had sent us tickets for the private view. The Commission
of Fine Arts have offered prizes for the best historical pictures
that may serve to adorn the new Houses of Parliament, and the
pictures of this collection were all painted with that view. One of
those which have received a prize is John Robinson bestowing his
farewell blessing upon the Pilgrims at Leyden, which is very
pleasing. It was to me like a friend in a strange country, and I
lingered over it the longest.
July 2d
Wednesday [evening] we went to Lady Duff Gordon's, who is the
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