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 178 PS.—I made a very high finished drawing of Romney as a companion to my drawing of the "Head of Cowper" (you remember), with which Flaxman is very much satisfied, and says that when my print is like that I need wish it no better, and I am determined to make it so at least. W. B.

44.

To William Hayley.

22nd January 1805.

,—I hope this letter will outstrip Mr. Phillips's, as I sit down to write immediately on returning from his house. He says he is agreeable to every proposal you have made, and will himself immediately reply to you. I should have supposed him mad if he had not: for such clear and generous proposals as yours to him he will not easily meet from anyone else. He will, of course, inform you what his sentiments are of the proposal concerning the three dramas. I found it unnecessary to mention anything relating to the purposed application of the profits, as he, on reading your letter, expressed his wish that you should yourself set a price, and that he would, in his letter to you, explain his reasons for wishing it. The idea of publishing one volume