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to be destroyed. Subsequently, having heard that the photographer had been selling copies, I was annoyed at his impertinent disregard of my direct order, with respect to a private photograph, and I informed him, if he continued to sell the print, I should take proceedings against him.
As to the book referred to by the Governor, if, as I assume, he means the Official Catalogue of the Public Museum at Naples, what I said was, that I had the book in my own library, and that, though, being mainly an illustration of antique statuary, it was scarcely a work I would place in the hands of my young daughters, there was not a single print in it which I could regard as, in any way, indecent.
I beg you will intimate to the Governor that, with this reply, the subject of it, so far as I am concerned, must close.
I have, &c.
Your obedient Servant,
(Signed) F. Bulkeley Johnson