48 MEMOIR OF DRURY. 



M London, April StL, 1<Y 

 " Dear Harris, 



" I have at last got my work entirely printed, 

 and shall have it home tomorrow or next day. I 

 have also agreed with Mr. White, bookseller in 

 Fleet Street, for the necessary business to be done 

 in publishing it, &c. ; but as I have only two sets 

 of prints coloured in your best manner, and one of 

 these, if not both, bespoke, I cannot with propriety 

 advertise it till I have some more of them ready. 

 I am at the greatest loss imaginable to know what 

 can be the occasion of your keeping those sets so 

 long in hand. Your son took them away the 8th 

 of February, therefore you have had them eight 

 weeks, and you often told me you could finish a 

 set in a week. If so, how can I account for your 

 delay, and that at a time when you cannot but be 

 sensible it is of the greatest consequence to me. I 

 wish to Heaven you was removed from the place 

 where you are now buried, and come to London, 

 for then I could scold you by word of mouth, and 

 am now forced to employ a great deal of time in 

 doing it by letter, which I can but ill spare. I be- 

 seech you, if you have not heard of a house in 

 London, put an advertisement in the newspapers 

 for one, that I may not be compelled to put you 

 and myself to the trouble of reading and writing 

 these letters. It is now three weeks since I wrote 

 my last, and am afraid that my prints are but a 

 very little forwarder than they were at that time ; 

 indeed, I fully expected that they would have been 



