i6 Faraday, Correspondence of Lt.-Col J. L. Philips. 



at the head quarters of his family ; he adds that he will 

 go on to London. The letter continues : — 



Miss Earle's go to Lymm the same day that I set off [to London], and I 

 suppose will stay nearly the same time, I dare say you will find opportunities 

 of seeing them. I was told you had an intention of coming to Allerton this 

 Xmas, this intelligence will undoubtedly fix you in your design, it will be so 

 kind & charitable to visit the two Old Ladies when the Young people are 

 away, and as the amiable Miss Braddock will be there you'll be just four of 

 you to sit down to a Pool as snug as anytliing — Oh ! Iiow I envy y-ou. 



The above is plaini}- a mild sarcasm, the insinuation 

 being that Taylor hardly expects that his friend, a 

 volatile )'Oung fellow of twenty, will be content to sit 

 down to play cards with two old ladies of seventy-nine 

 and sixt\--four. 



During the summer Taylor apparently came to Man- 

 chester and spent some time with Philips, the two friends 

 amusing themselves with their usual congenial occupations. 

 Writing on September 27th Taylor refers to the late 

 "happy time" at Manchester. He adds: — "We had 

 to-da\^ a certain account from Cork of the safe arrival there 

 of the West India Fleet, which has brightened the faces 

 of many of our old dons." As in the previous year Taylor 

 goes to spend Christmas at Norwich, and the next letter 

 (March 13th, 1782) tells of his adventures in London. 



I thought of you frequently in London X- how I should have enjoy'd 

 your company to the various exhibitions. I had a friend with me but he is 

 one who had no relish for the Arts so that it was rather a toil to him to go 

 with me to many places, and several times I was forc'd to relinquish the 

 sight of what I wished in order to accompany him to entertainments more to 

 his mind than Painters' Galleries, yet I contriv'd to see all the best of them. I 

 was delighted beyond measure with \Yest* and was so fortunate to visit his 

 rooms when they were uncommonly well fill'd, by a lucky accident my 

 friend blunderd into an inner room where strangers are not admitted. 

 West himself happened to be there at work and on our making apologies for 

 our mistake he desir'd us to walk in & look about us which we did, much to 

 our satisfiction, there are several Capital matters in an unfinished state two 

 of which he said wou'd be compleat'd for the exhibition. S"" Joshua has a 



• Benjamin West, P. K.A., vide first series of these "Selections." 



