Lawrence Papers / Estate & Family Trust Business for Revd. Charles Lawrence / Correspondence between J. W. Brooks (Brighton Road, Rathgar, Dublin) and Lawrence,

Brooks to Lawrence advising that he has no doubt the Minerva and Mars are ‘…excellent works of art, and in the course of a few days I hope to bring myself in touch with some of the men I mentioned.  The first thing to be done is to ascertain whether they are Canova’s own, or from the chisel of another artist, and if so, whose.  The works I have seen by Canova are less florid, but these may have been some of his earliest, before his style became fixed.
I saw the Volunteers’ Gate. As soon as it can be managed there should be a little money spent in under-pinning the lower courses.  A few days work would save it from much further damage.’ (p1)