Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1830-09-28

TO TIE EDITORS OF THE ENQUIRER.
My publ cation IN the Elqu,rer OF Ue 9th INST
intended "a caution 10 the public against receiving
Mr. Sulys copies OF The old pictures, said 10 he
Pocahonias aud Role, did believe them to b,
such.-This, expected, would bring out Mr.. Sully.
evidence, 10 shew was misakep-as yet, however
think he has failed in his profit has not been denied
but on the contrary expressly admitted that they
The pictures brought from England by Ryiand Ran.
dolph-ths is sad to have been done about the wear
i772-Pocahonas died in the early part of the year
1917, at ahou, % years Of age. One hundred and IT,
tyfue years had, therefore elapsed and it remains 10
he she wn, 'Oho gave them to Mr. Randolph, and his
authority Tor saying they the portraits OF Rolie
and PocahOnlas - Mr.. ID M. RanduIph's statement
pr0veS noihing.-Mr. Lynch is unques tiDnabIy msta.
ken TO he picture about which my doubt. were ~
pressed for the said to be Roe has comparative.
y excited lille or no enquiry with any doubt
hey have bern shewn 10 many visitors Cobbs, the
pictures said 10 be Pocahouas and Rolfe and thus il
may have got abroad. that the family universally be.
eveG them TO be so.-Bu, l repeat, that my Father
never did believe it the portrait of Pocahontas /;
from him, doubt imbibsd my first impr sssons CON
6Fmed afterwards by my own observAtions.-Mr. Robt.
Boiling OF Petersburg will probably recoect when he
applied to me some years ago. on the part OF Mr. Peae
TO copy these pictures, that told bin sati fed
wssnot the portrai, OF Pocahontas, and CAN'T Blair
Boiling will recollcc similar reply, when he applied
TO me The part OF MIR. Warrell.-I singular
in this opinion srce my publication, have received
letter from verify kn'man, whom have seldom
seen since we grew gp 10 manhood HI once resided
at Cobbs, where he had daily opportunities Of seeing
the picufes-He writes me, that he had himself in
endfd 10 have dsclamed dis picture until he found
IL seems that MIR. Lynch claims them as his propsr
ty (slthough he msn'iops two unsuecos .fuI sppca
tons he made 60 me, 10 give them TO hin)--Whout in
vesgsting his tile here, If he will send them to the
care OF my friend, Mr.. Charles Ellis oil Richmond, al
my eXpenie, will send to the gentleman The
portrait Of John Boiling, formerly mentioned. They
may be hung up The Coffee House. or some other
public room IN Richmond, where hose who choose
may examine them and Judge fer themseIYes--and he
who believe ths the female portrait represents an
Indian Of about 20 years of age, must have greater
faith in Court Costumes aud Curling Tongs than falls
10 my lot. WILL BOILING.
Billing Hall, 2lst Sept. 1880.
have received The following Letter from my Ne
phew, Archibald Robertson, which goes 8 completely
TO cotroborae TIE statements have made 10 the public
that eauest you 10 sujon il to he above communi.
cation
"PETERsBURG, Sept 20 n, 1890
In looking The Enquirer some few weeks sgo
my attention was drawn TO the commune alton an.
nouncing another great loss we were about to sustain
in the removal from amongst ne Of another great artist
Mr.. Pettco4s had gone, and Mr. SuIly ju.t going in
urnanng thou hit, from choice hu, necessity
that ihe bitter gentleman had lately copied tie Por
traits Of Role and Pocahonas and that the execution
was done in a mastrrly manser- Obese are not the
~ ris, bu' the substance.) | very much grathed
At the niorna'ion and ad on anxious 10 know where
upon Tue lace OF he earth the Painter had been for
nate 10 find the oIsiuals, when. much TO my dsap-
pon and regret discovered that the two old tic
lures, from the paronr Cohbs, were they which had
been copied and published TO the world the portraits
OF Roie and Pecahoutas--Tbat they may be 80 will
not deny--hut that they considered go, hy
my Grand Father, Thomas Boiling, or Grand Mother,
Father Mother, by any member of the family who
is dead with honorable exception, OF tho.e who
alive, have never known until few days pssi,
heard sUggested--From ny birth 10 manhood resd.
ed at, within six miles Of C0bbswas in those days
often there, ard frequently since, and s never did,