The Fairy Concert was accompanied by the following letter: 93 Prince's St Sunday Dear Madam I am quite ashamed - not only of having been so long in finishing the drawing which accompanies this note - but of the utter worthlessness of said daub - but wonderful hot weather - for Scotland - and tiresome headaches - must shape some excuse for my first cause of blushes - and my poor talent for design - and no small degree of blindness, is all I have to offer by way of apology for the other fault - such as it is, I lay my Fairy Concert at your mercy - begging you, to believe, that if I could have done it better, I would - and that I am always, dear Madam - your most faithful humble servant Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe
Jorgen Jensen, Et Archaeologisk Vikingetog : J.J.A. Worsaaes rejse til England, Skotland og Irland 1846-47, Nationalmuseet, 2007, page 134