The Wisconsin magazine of history: Volume 25, number 1, September 1941

              42 louise phelps kellogg picture on the strength of the testimony recorded for my own per sonal gratification . . . my effort was to preserve the likeness contour features of the copy my copy from the presumed original change the civilized or rather the fashionable princess to the beautiful forest girl of more pleasant associations — the guardian angel of the colony there 13 a passage in beverly's old history of virginia describing the innocent pastimes of the indian maidens — neither did the chaste and decent pocahontas distain to mingle in their revels crowned with wild flowers she presided at the chorus or led the dance — on that hint i painted the flowers in the hair . . . the pearls from the ear and on the neck are often mentioned by smith to conclude — i have endeavored to give the idea of the blessed pocahontas as smith terms her of jamestown association preserving as much of likeness as possible from the imputed original . . j this he adds no longer exists ; it was a thing of threads and patches when he first saw it these then were sully s gifts to the society he had adopted as his own — our society he often calls it in his letters — the jamestown relics the portrait of marshall painted from life and the pocahontas portrait adopted from the supposed original the three indian portraits of black hawk and his followers are also by his hand sully had planned to become a wisconsin pioneer in duced by promises from draper of commissions to paint portraits of our founders and inclined to the simple life of our woods and waters he determined to remove to madison he left richmond october 16 1855 full of buoyant hopes and high anticipations taken ill at buffalo en route he died there october 28 and wisconsin was deprived of the fruits of his genius which promised so much for the future of the state historical society matter relative to a picture of pocahontas — presented to the hist s of wisconsin march 1855 in miscellaneous mss wis hist library the italics were underscored in his manuscript