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I take the Liberty of Sending you a Print, as yet unpublished said to be the Portrait of your favorite Milton. – that it is a fine Head & full of Sentiment your will see; and as it is very like Hollis's Bust by Simons, it May probably be the portrait of that Venerable Bard but whether it is for certain Romney & yourself are well qualified to determine –

Perhaps his dress with the Calabash fasten'd to the Pilgrims [sic] Staff may related to his Italian Journey, the vision \of our Lord/in the back Ground to his Paradise regain'd ———