86 NESSY HEYWOOD'S TALENTS. 
few hours, and you will embrace your long-lost 
and most affectionate brother, 
" PETER HEYWOOD." 
Mr. Graham's impatience, and generous 
anxiety to crown this joyful event, would not 
permit him to delay one moment ; and on the 
Monday morning, the happy party arrived in 
London. 
On the 29th October a letter was written, 
apprising the anxious mother of her dear sailor 
boy's arrival in London. Another letter, written 
after poor Nessy had seen him at liberty, 
breathes the tenderest feelings of a heart almost 
breaking with joy. It is thus headed: 
" Great Russell-street. Monday morning, 
29th Oct., half-past ten o'clock, the brightest 
moment of my existence," and ends thus: 
" I can write no more, but to tell you, that 
the three happiest beings at this moment on 
earth are your most dutiful and affectionate 
children, NESSY HEYWOOD, PETEK HEYWOOD, 
JAMES HEYWOOD." 
This amiable girl possessed, among other 
accomplishments, poetic powers of no common 
order. There remain in manuscript many 
copies of verses of her composition on various 
subjects; though her theme of themes was her 
brother, his sufferings, and his restoration to 
liberty and honour. The following are among 
the lines which she wrote, " On receiving certain 
intelligence that my most amiable and beloved 
brother, Peter Hey wood, would soon be restored to 
freedom:" 
