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Nov 15 1794

My very dear Flaxman

Your two very kind & most welcome Letters arrived here in the same moment, & I eagerly seize the first post to assure you with my own Hand, what I have repeatedly desired our dear Romney to tell you in my name, that my Heart & soul are most tenderly interested in your safe & joyous Return - a blessed event ! that I have panted for, not only with all the zeal of the most cordial Friendship, but with parental anxiety for the sake of the dear little future artist, whose education has been my chief delight for fourteen years; & whom I can now consign to your guidance & Instruction with a confident & chearful pride, that extends equally to the Disciple & the Master.

I must be greatly deceived indeed by my double partiality for both, if you do not become more & more dear to each other as you become more acquainted - when I speak of you, I include the dear Nancy as making a considerable part of my valuable Friend the sculptor, in whose professional prosperity