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How much we were all pleased with Giovanni I leave you to guess - He will have told you long before this letter kisses yr Hand many particulars relating to Eliza Longinus Romney & yr poetical Brother – He will have told you that I wish you to write a new epic elegy - & on what Subject - the night after we last dined together I dreamt of such a Composition as we had been wishing you to execute & if you will be a good Sister & take up yr poetical Pen I will endeavour to recollect all I can of my dream in which I had a clear Idea of the while design for such a Poem which affected me so much in vision that I awoke in a Flood of Tears - I tried in the subsequent morning to recollect some these sleeping Verses but I could only recover two of them which I transcribe