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This system, for many good & powerful reasons, that I will enumerate to you whenever we meet, I should greatly prefer to every other mode of fixing the young artists [sic] Board & Lodging – it will be singularly convenient to me, because by placing a little press Bed in Toms [sic] chamber, I can sleep in his apartment, whenever I visit London, & mess also with Him, as it is an invariable rule with the Hermit, not to dine in company, when he visits the great City, where long dinners make half the disagreeable Heat & bustle of Life –

It pleases me not a little to find you think as highly as I do of our beloved Romneys late Works, particularly his Milton – I consider your return as a great Blessing to Him as well as to Tom & myself, & I trust we shall all animate one another to the happy accomplishment of many creditable Productions – Between ourselves I am meditating a copious work of Verse & Prose on your art, & I shall want to