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459 wise an original picture of the celebrated Lord Essex, and some others worth your attention.

“You have made me very happy by the drawing of Shakspeare, for which I am extremely obliged. It struck me there was some little defect in one of the eyes, by too much of the white being shown, which gives the appearance of squinting, and which I do not recollect in the original. But I am no artist; and it is a hundred to one that I am mistaken. If I am right it can be easily rectified.

“I suppose you will not for some time look at old Shakspeare’s face; but if any one can prevail upon you to copy what you have done, remember that I am to have the original. When Mr. Hall has done with it, and when next we have the pleasure of meeting, I will settle with you on the subject. In the meantime believe me, dear sir, &c. &c.

“My address in Ireland is Baronston, Mullingar.”

Dr. Farmer, who had been enlisted in the same pursuit, sends some further information of his lordship with an apology for omitting his notes on the three parts of Henry VI.

“,—I hoped to have seen you in my way through town, but I spent only one day there, and that at the other end of it.

“You should have heard from me a post or two sooner, but our Registrar was out of the University, and I could not earlier get into the office. I find